Bumping this thread for all the people who might have missed it over the weekend.
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote: > Over this weekend I have finally started to work on a new Libcloud website. > > Website is not finished yet, but I think I have made decent progress and > some feedback would be appreciated at this point. > > Live preview: http://lcv2.dev.tomaz.me/ > Source code: https://github.com/Kami/libcloud-website-v2/ > Task list: https://github.com/Kami/libcloud-website-v2/issues > > New website highlights: > > - New and fully responsive design powered by Bootstrap 3 > - More modern and user friendly design and typography > - Website is now powered by Jekyll static website / blogging engine > - New website now features a blog > - Content has been updated > > Why move away from the Apache CMS to Jekyll? > > Jekyll is way more powerful and flexible. On top of that it has way bigger > user base and plugin ecosystem. > > Website will still be stored in a version control system so benefits we > get from that are preserved. > > Content > > I have updated a bunch of existing content, but I'm pretty sure there is > still a lot of place for improvements. Feel free to submit pull requests > with your changes (typo fixes, grammar fixes, content improvements, other > improvements, ...). > > News / Blog page > > On the existing website we don't have blog functionality, but we have a > static "News" page (http://libcloud.apache.org/news.html) which mostly > links to the release announcements on the mailing list. > > Jekyll makes it very easy to add support for blogging so I have replaced > "News" section with a fully featured Blog. > > I have back-filled this new blog with the old release announcement posts. > Those posts are very short and only contain a link to the mailing list > thread, but going forward, we will be able to add proper blog posts and > release announcements. > > Feedback wanted > > As noted above, feedback would be very much appreciated at this point. You > can find some existing open tasks / issues on the Github issues page - > https://github.com/Kami/libcloud-website-v2/issues. > > Feel free to post your feedback and submit pull requests with your changes > and improvements. > >
