Bingo On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Tom Barber <tom.bar...@meteorite.bi> wrote:
> Thanks Lewis! I think with stuff like this its hard to fully explain over > email without a 10000 word essay. > > Anyway, I said I'd leave it but I got bored so I wondered what else Jekyll > could do to help us and here's a couple of things I came up with: > > https://github.com/buggtb/oodt-website/blob/gh-pages/_config.yml#L29 > > The downloads page on the CMS is manually updated, but you know me, I love > a bit of automation, so in Jekyll we could dump the release info in here > and watch it magically build: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8503756/oodt-website/download.html > > That way it should be dead simple to keep the download page up to date. > > I then wondered about other stuff so I looked at the PMC list, it'll get > stale easily, so what could I do to sort that out: > > > https://github.com/buggtb/oodt-website/blob/gh-pages/_plugins/pcm_generator.rb > > Greps the new ASF phone book and extracts our PMC members, as I'm a giving > kind of guy, I'll parametrize it and Joshua or whatever can use it as well > when its done. > > Currently the PMC list is on the download page, ignore that it was just for > testing. > > Anyway there you go. Couple more nuggets that could make the website > maintenance a whole lot simpler. > > Tom > > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Tom Barber <tom.bar...@meteorite.bi > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > When I took over the chair from SK, my unofficial aim was to use this > > chair > > > period to try and get the business users involved, my day job requires > me > > > to drive users to our product and get them interested enough to test > it, > > > whilst OODT isn't commercial, ultimately the goal is the same, to gain > > > users and community members, we need users, and we need users who don't > > > just work in the scientific domain. Whilst the odd person might swing > by > > > the mailing list, in reality, 99% of users will land on the homepage, > and > > > that is the determining factor as to whether they bother to investigate > > > further. Which is why I spend a lot of time prioritising stuff that > > doesn't > > > really make a lot of sense to the rest of you! :) > > > > > > > > For the record its worth me stating here that I totally understand your > > PoV. When you showed me your BI workflow examples way back @ApacheCon I > > realized that your use cases were different. It's very refreshing to see > > software re-purposed or presented in a different manner. An eye opener so > > to speak. > > Look forward to seeing what kind of roadmap we come up with @ApacheCon > this > > year again. > > Ta > > > -- *Lewis*
