I'm not opposed to doing a call, but let's try to work further via email
before we take this route. I can dump what I have into a git repo as a
sandbox and we can start to play around with it.
Bruce
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Michael André Pearce <
michael.andre.pea...@me.com> wrote:
> +1 on Matt’s idea, maybe we get a base website design and some sample
> pages migrated, and agreed on with this group first.
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> Is it worth maybe having a virtual meetup to discuss the design etc (maybe
> some form of webex or Skype call?) to try work to some sample? What time
> zone Matt and Bruce are you in?
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> then we could do his hackathon idea to get through the cruft manually,
> 1600+ some of that must be out dated or irrelevant.
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> > On 7 Dec 2017, at 16:39, Bruce Snyder <bruce.sny...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have poked through some of the exported HTML pages from Confluence and
> > there is so much cruft in there. E.g., large amounts of content wrapped
> in
> > tables -- blech! I've also experimented with the text2html Python script
> > and it does not convert these HTML files to Markdown very well, even if I
> > skip tables. If we were to resort to hacking the HTML by hand to convert
> to
> > Markdown, this is a *tremendous* amount of work. I grabbed the HTML, got
> > rid of the duplicates that I saw and I still have 1600+ files.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Matt Pavlovich <mattr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If we can settle on a target format, I'd be up for dedicating time for a
> >> hack-a-thon to just blaze through it. While painful, I believe we could
> get
> >> it done quickly.
> >>
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> >>> On 12/6/17 10:20 PM, Bruce Snyder wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Several opinions have been expressed recently that the ActiveMQ website
> >>> needs some attention and that Artemis should be made more prominent.
> I'd
> >>> like to discuss some ideas to see what we could achieve on this topic.
> >>>
> >>> If we are going to make Artemis more prominent, the first concern I
> >>> identified is that the ActiveMQ website and the Artemis website are
> >>> authored differently. The ActiveMQ website is authored in the
> Confluence
> >>> wiki and exported to HTML automagically whereas the Artemis website is
> >>> authored in raw HTML. As a result, the two sites have a very different
> >>> look
> >>> and feel to them. This presents some challenges to using the content
> >>> between the two.
> >>>
> >>> But this presents other questions -- do we want the two sites to look
> >>> similar or different? When someone looks at Artemis content, do we want
> >>> the
> >>> user to immediately know that they are looking at ActiveMQ content vs.
> >>> Artemis based content solely due to the look and feel of the site?
> Should
> >>> there even be two different sites?
> >>>
> >>> I would prefer to have the site authored in a language that is easier
> to
> >>> write than HTML (such as Markdown). I would also like the files
> comprising
> >>> the site to live in a git repo. To give the site a modern look and feel
> >>> means using CSS (e.g., SASS, etc.). All these things can be achieved
> using
> >>> Jekyll, but first we would need to convert the raw HTML files to
> Mardown
> >>> to
> >>> put in git. I have experimented with some tools to convert HTML to
> >>> Markdown
> >>> and they are less than ideal. Does anyone have any experience with
> this?
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for the rambling. Anyone else interested to help tackle this
> thorny
> >>> set of issues?
> >>>
> >>> Bruce
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > perl -e 'print
> > unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );'
> >
> > ActiveMQ in Action: http://bit.ly/2je6cQ
> > Blog: http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/>
> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/brucesnyder
>
--
perl -e 'print
unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );'
ActiveMQ in Action: http://bit.ly/2je6cQ
Blog: http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/>
Twitter: http://twitter.com/brucesnyder
