On Nov 27, 2011, at 7:19, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 November 2011 11:40, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: >> While the l'n'f can be easily changed - it is just a matter of assign >> styles - not all strict commons customizations are not included in the >> skin, since it is a general skin with the purpose to serve not only >> commons. > > The changes I did for Commons are actually needed on other ASF projects. > For example, they are also used on HttpComponents. > > The problem is that the Maven site generation is not flexible enough, > particularly for multi-component projects. > >> I don't see other solution ATM than forking the skin if we intend to > > Does the skin involve more than just CSS changes? > > If not, then it would be easy enough to replace the Commons CSS with > the updated version if people agree with the new look. > > Note: this is another restriction of Maven site generation - AFAIK > it's not possible to change the template independently of the CSS.
Do we have a Maven Jira? Any interest in a short burst of [commons] energy from this ML to address these kinds of issues with [maven]? Site generation comes up over and over. Do we have any contact with Maven developers? Gary > >> apply it, but after all the effort I already put on it, this is >> something I don't want to be involved ATM, I want to come back >> developing code and not doing the designer for a while. >> >> Let's keep the old skin >> >> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >> http://www.99soft.org/ >> >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:51 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 26 November 2011 21:07, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> Hi all guys, >>>> at Maven we have just released a new skin[1], I quickly did an >>>> experiment and applied it on my beloved digester, deploying the site >>>> on my personal [2] ASF space. >>>> WDYT? Is there any chance to have it applied here at commons? >>>> It would involve a little modification to the parent pom[3]. >>>> Any feedback would me much more than appreciated, many thanks in advance! >>> >>> The Commons Logo and link are not working. >>> >>> I had to add some special code to the Velocity template to get round >>> bugs in Maven site generation. >>> The logo and link use a dummy url suffix to ensure that they are not >>> converted into relative URLs. You have to remove the following from >>> the end of the URLs: >>> >>> .remove.invalid >>> >>> There's similar trickery for the image processing. >>> >>> As a temporary hack I suggest you manually fix the output so at least >>> we can see what it *should* look like. >>> >>> Having said that, I find the page a bit harder to read, because the >>> introduction takes up far too much space. >>> >>> Also, the RHS links are missing. We need to provide a links to >>> ApacheCon and the ASF. >>> >>> And the trademark notices at the bottom are missing. These are also >>> required. >>> I spent a lot of time getting that working (again, because of >>> deficiencies in Maven site generation). >>> >>>> Simo >>>> >>>> [1] http://maven.apache.org/skins/maven-fluido-skin/ >>>> [2] http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/digester >>>> [3] https://gist.github.com/1396291 >>>> >>>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>>> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >>>> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >>>> http://www.99soft.org/ >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
