Eric Bastarache wrote:
My name is Eric Bastarache and I have experience in both web design and
development, and I am interested in contributing to improving the look of the
website(s) for OpenOffice.
Welcome! Both the web and the code areas of OpenOffice require a bit of
patience; we can guide you through all details (probably Marcus, who is
the most prolific contributor to the website, will step in) but I'll
give you some basic information on how the OpenOffice site differs from
an ordinary site.
First, it's all static HTML and markdown. Yes, no CMS, no preprocessing,
no PHP, nothing. We do have some limited preprocessing in the form of
server-side includes for some common DIVs, but that's all. JavaScript is
used extensively to cope with server-side restrictions.
The site is built through SVN commits. You can checkout the site (a few
GBytes) with
$ svn co https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ooo-site/
As for building it locally, it uses an ASF (Apache Software Foundation)
thing that is known as "the CMS" but has little to do with any CMS you
would consider.
CSS: We are not using any CSS frameworks at the moment; not even JS
frameworks despite the quite active use of JavaScript. Adopting one,
though, wouldn't be an obstacle, since the site is built from static
content anyway (so one would either use SASS and "watch" the files with
Compass, or compile the CSS in any other way before committing).
Are you prepared to work with this constraints? Then we'd love to get
some help and we can continue the discussion! If you have expertise with
more modern web systems, we could still use your help somehow, so don't
be scared in case.
Regards,
Andrea.
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