I also like the proposed designs. Considering that you want to touch individual subpages, there are also some subpages of Flink's website not being mentioned in the FLIP (e.g. roadmap [1]). What is the plan with those? Are they covered by the "We recommend modifications only to the design of the following pages" part but are not listed there?
Additionally, it would be nice to get a bit more insight into the feedback from users as Xintong pointed out. It would be interesting to understand how the new design helps solving certain problems (besides having the motivation to modernize the look and feel). I'm also wondering whether it's doable to do a discussion (FLIP?) per subpage on the design (as proposed by Chesnay in the first discussion on this topic [2] to have smaller changes rather than a single big one). But I could imagine this being quite tedious because different people might have different opinions on how something should be done. I don't have any experience with frontend design. I'm wondering how much time such a redesign takes. Could it be linked to the 2.0 release? Thanks for the FLIP (you might want to add [2] to the FLIP's header for the sake of transparency). Matthias [1] https://flink.apache.org/roadmap/ [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/c3pt00cf77lrtgt242p26lgp9l2z5yc8 On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 11:39 AM Xintong Song <tonysong...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 in general. > > Thanks for proposing this contribution, Deepthi. The new design looks very > cool. > > I have a few questions, which might be entry-level given that I barely know > anything about the website design. > - Do you think it's feasible to maintain two sets of website designs at the > same time? E.g., adding a button "back to previous version". I'm asking > because, while the new UI might be more friendly to newcomers, the original > website might be more convenient for people who are already familiar with > it to find things. It would be nice if we can offer both options to users. > - For the documentation, I wonder if it makes sense to offer the same color > theme as the website, to keep the experience consistent. How much effort > does it require? > - In the FLIP, you mentioned things like "there's a general consensus" and > "feedback from customers". I'm curious where these come from. Have you > conducted some sort of survey? Would you mind sharing a bit more about > that? > > Best, > > Xintong > > > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 4:57 PM Feifan Wang <zoltar9...@163.com> wrote: > > > +1 , the new design looks more attractive and is well organized > > > > | > > | > > Feifan Wang > > | > > | > > zoltar9...@163.com > > | > > > > > > ---- Replied Message ---- > > | From | Leonard Xu<xbjt...@gmail.com> | > > | Date | 07/11/2023 16:34 | > > | To | dev<dev@flink.apache.org> | > > | Subject | Re: [DISCUSS] FLIP 333 - Redesign Apache Flink website | > > +1 for the redesigning, the new website looks cool. > > > > > > Best, > > Leonard > > > > On Jul 11, 2023, at 7:55 AM, Mohan, Deepthi <mdee...@amazon.com.INVALID> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I’m opening this thread to discuss a proposal to redesign the Apache > Flink > > website: https://flink.apache.org. The approach and a few initial > mockups > > are included in FLIP 333 - Redesign Apache Flink website.< > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-333%3A+Redesign+Apache+Flink+website > > > > > > > The goal is to modernize the website design to help existing and new > users > > easily understand Flink’s value proposition and make Flink attractive to > > new users. As suggested in a previous thread, there are no proposed > changes > > to Flink documentation. > > > > I look forward to your feedback and the discussion. > > > > Thanks, > > Deepthi > > > > > > >
