Congrats Andrew! pt., 16 kwi 2021 o 13:31 Andrew Wetmore <cottag...@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> Today my wife and I have appointments, a long drive from home, to get our > first COVID-19 injections. This will probably use up most of the day, > leaving aside possible side-effects, so I likely will not have the wiki > page about the web site ready to receive ideas and concerns until tomorrow > at the earliest. > > a > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 8:33 PM Maria Jose Esteve <mjest...@iest.com> > wrote: > > > What dizziness! jajajaja > > > > Hiedra > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > De: Andrew Wetmore <cottag...@gmail.com> > > Enviado el: viernes, 16 de abril de 2021 1:29 > > Para: Apache Royale Development <dev@royale.apache.org> > > Asunto: Re: Use Royale to build the Royale website? > > > > This is great. > > > > To start, I think I will create a wiki page so we can capture what we > must > > have and what we would like to have in the website. For me, our website > > must communicate useful and engaging information about our project and > what > > one can do with Royale. I would also like to include some features to > > demonstrate a little bit of what Royale can do--maybe viewstates to > manage > > what displays when, localization (at least some of the site), responsive > so > > it appears well on laptops and mobile devices, use of CSS, and other > > stuff...and then we can use the website itself as a demonstration of > > Royale's versatility. > > > > The Infra guidelines say a project's site should not be dynamic, in the > > sense of using HTTP calls to get data that it then displays: the site > > should be "flat". But we may find that Royale code compiled to > JavaScript > > can do lots of interestng things wiithout breaking the Infra rules. > > > > I will set up the wiki page tomorrow and let you all know that it is > > available for adding ideas. > > > > Andrew > > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 5:42 PM Alina Kazi <alinakazi1...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Great Maria and really its very good to show it in ApacheCon 2021. > > > > > > Great Idea Andrew, I would also love to contribute in any way I can. > > > Also, If you have some design in mind. Share with us. > > > Create a source repository,so we can start with jewel basic flat theme > > > or any other option that community suggests. We start migrating > > > wordpress website step by step. Until we have virtual machine or other > > stuff ready. > > > > > > Alina Kazi > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, 10:03 PM Maria Jose Esteve, <mjest...@iest.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > > Andrew, I can help, I think the community has to make an effort if > > > > we > > > want > > > > to get to ApacheCon 2021 😝 > > > > > > > > Have you thought about a redesign of the website or a "translation"? > > > > > > > > How could I contribute? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hiedra > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > > > De: Andrew Wetmore <cottag...@gmail.com> Enviado el: jueves, 15 de > > > > abril de 2021 1:51 > > > > Para: Apache Royale Development <dev@royale.apache.org> > > > > Asunto: Use Royale to build the Royale website? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At the moment the Royale website depends on a private server running > > > > WordPress. I wonder if it is time to build and deploy it using > > > > Royale itself. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We don't need the great strengths of Royale--dynamic display, subtle > > > > data-processing, and so on--to support the site. It is (as all > > > > projects sites are intended to be) a flat, relatively static > > > > website. That should mean that running our own website with the aid > > > > of our own tool should be far from impossible. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What is required? If I understand correctly, we would need Infra to > > > > provide a virtual machine on which we could install and run a stable > > > > instance of Royale, and a repository of the site's source code in > > > > MXML > > > and > > > > AS files, just like a real Royale application.. Each time we updated > > > > a > > > page > > > > or a file in the website repository, Infra's automated tools would > > > > set > > > off > > > > a build and deployment of the updated site. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Some time ago a proof-of-concept was partly built to do this very > > > > thing, so we have some resources to start from. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Benefits: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Since it is a simple website, it should probably be an exercise > > > > contributors and committers at many skill levels could help work on. > > > > > > > > -- It would give us a "brag" to point to. > > > > > > > > -- We would move over to open-source resources, rather than those of > > > > WordPress.. > > > > > > > > -- Infra has an efficient and stable CI process in place that can > > > > work with Royale's command-line to trigger builds and deployment. > > > > > > > > -- Other???? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Costs: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Time to migrate the existing site into Royale assets. > > > > > > > > -- Other????? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What do you all think of such a proposal? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > a > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Andrew Wetmore > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Andrew Wetmore > > > > http://cottage14.blogspot.com/ > > > > > -- > Andrew Wetmore > > http://cottage14.blogspot.com/ > -- Piotr Zarzycki
