On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 8:53 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 June 2017 at 13:35, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > > All, > > > > I'd like to start the process to move forward on a new incubator website. > > Based on discussions in the past on list, I wanted to do the following: > > I missed those, so some of my comments may be unnecessary ... >
Your input is never unnecessary Sebb :-) > > > - Roll out a new technology stack + repository > > Is this going to be documented somewhere? > Yes, I think it'll be useful to include a README (a new norm?) on how it works + create the equivalent of https://incubator.apache.org/ngtest/guides/website.html for the new git repo + jbake, plus docs on how the jenkins job works (over CMS) > > > - Leave content in place, while we work later on content enhancements > > > > For right now, I'm planning to leave the existing /projects and > > /ip-clearance in place. My hope is that we may not need them in the > future. > > /projects files are currently referenced from lots of places. > ACK. I have no intention of dropping /projects anytime soon, at least not until Whimsy can handle all of these use cases. > > This includes retired podling website urls which redirect to the > relevant projects/podling.html file. > These are set up as permanent redirects in .htaccess files. > I'm wondering if this can just show a 404 page after a while? For TLPs we show an attic notice, but podlings may have never gotten through a release. > > The list of graduated and retired projects needs to be accessible. > While we provide this service today, I'm wondering what the use case is for it? Is it just to see that after they've graduated they had everything done? > > > The website staging area can be seen here: > > https://incubator.apache.org/ngtest/ > > The git repository for the site can be seen here: > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/jbake-site > > (with > > github mirror at https://github.com/apache/incubator/tree/jbake-site ) > > > > I'd like to get some final feedback on the layout and colors (not the > > content). > > The layout and colours seem fine to me, but I was happy with the > present layout (which was redone not that long ago?) > It has to be ~ 6 years, at least, the incubator website looks the same as when I first got here. > > All existing (major) URLs should continue to work to avoid > invalidating bookmarks. > Sure, I'm assuming you'd be OK with a .htaccess doing redirects? Just note at some point we will be moving content around. > > > I want to start tracking content enhancements in JIRA to help > > come up with a backlog of areas of improvement for our incubator guides. > > > > John > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >