+1 on Jekyll. This should be easier to contribute for. Thanks to Tomaz for actually putting this together, as opposed to taking a screenshot and calling it a day...
On Dec 16, 2013, at 4:17 PM, John Carr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > Not sure what to say other than - this is looking good! > > Any thoughts about where “who’s using libcloud” fits in? I think it's time to abandon that section. A lot of people are using libcloud :) > I really like the new blog, but it looks weird with so many short blog posts. > Can we backfill the old release announcements with more texts? Or have a > longer “libcloud roadmap” post ready to go? > > Cheers, > John > > On 16 Dec 2013, at 21:29, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >>> >>> >
