Looks great guys! On Jul 15, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gaurav, OK, I'm done on my side: http://roller.apache.org/ I followed > the website architecture used by the Apache Isis team > (http://isis.apache.org/contributors/updating-the-cms-site.html) and that > saved me a lot of time. > > Feel free to make website enhancements, possibly looking at other Apache > websites for inspiration (https://projects.apache.org/indexes/quick.html -- > BTW, I think Isis' carousel looks neat: http://isis.apache.org/index.html). > You can svn commit all you want, that just moves it to the staging website > (#4 here: http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html), but for > significant changes, please hold off on hitting the publish-to-production > button (#5) until the team has a chance to review the change on staging and > possibly make suggestions. > > The way the Apache CMS works is that the markdown files (*.mdtext) under the > content folder are run through a template (line #9 and #10 here: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/roller/cmssite/trunk/lib/path.pm?revision=1610818&view=markup), > converting them to HTML files. For most text you'll create an .mdtext file > and run it through the basic.html template (line #10 of the above link); for > advanced stuff you can store an HTML under templates/*.html and have a > dummy/empty .mdtext file run through that .html file, effectively resulting > in the HTML becoming viewable (see line #9 for an example of a dummy markdown > file.) > > Regards, > Glen > > > On 07/13/2014 08:31 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: >> Hi Gaurav, I'm going to go ahead with what I have this week (without the >> carousel), in the interim, please go ahead with the carousel'ed version >> (either [1] or [2] is good) There's two parts to this work: one is getting >> us to bootstrap (there's no guarantee just copying the files to our website >> folder will cause it to work -- I need to research this, the current website >> uses Apache CMS and may be expecting Markdown instead of HTML files), for >> that we just need a simple but workable website (what I have.) Once #1 is >> done, you're welcome to add/replace with any other bootstrap pages--carousel >> and whatever other bells and whistles. >> >> Make sure the screenshots look good. It's better to have nothing than have >> something that looks bad. By doing the carousel after the deployment of the >> non-carouseled version, this gives us time to have good screenshots while >> not forcing us to rush the screenshots just so we can get on Bootstrap. >> >> I do need you check out the current non-bootstrap website, make a trivial >> change to it--add the word "test" to a page maybe, svn commit it, view the >> word "test" on staging, publish it to our production website, view the word >> "test" on our production website, undo your trivial change, commit your >> undo, view it on staging, and publish your undo. In getting from A to B you >> need to understand A first (you need SVN practice). It's all documented >> here: http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html and I'm >> available either on the dev@ list of off-line for any questions you have. >> >> Regards, >> Glen >> >> >> On 07/13/2014 07:22 AM, Gaurav Saini wrote: >>> Hello Glen, >>> >>> Great work, website now looks good. I have searched a bit and found 2 >>> themes if you can consider them [1] >>> <http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/> [2] >>> <http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html> and have >>> one of these which seems to be more good to you. >>> Also, the Roller current home page have a lot of content we can add that >>> also to these pages. >>> >>> Glen, I can build the roller website on top of any of these two themes, if >>> it looks good to you and will share with the community. >>> Also, I am interested in adding some images to the carousel, if you have >>> any idea of what type of images we can add up there (some pics can be >>> screenshot of roller UI ). >>> >>> [1] - http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/ >>> [2] - http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html >>> >>> Thanks >>> Gaurav >>> >>> On Thursday 10 July 2014 03:06 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: >>>> Hi team, in ROL-2024 I attached a .tar.gz file showing a proposed >>>> Bootstrap-based website to replace our current Roller website. This is >>>> just a starter website, something we can build on over time (in >>>> particular, one thing I'd like to eventually see is a Bootstrap "carousel" >>>> of rotating screenshots, like OpenMeetings has: >>>> http://openmeetings.apache.org/). >>>> >>>> Please take a look at the website and let me know if this is good enough >>>> to make live, if not, what changes you would like prior to that happening. >>>> Please distinguish between before-deployment changes (my main concern >>>> here -- right now, I'm just trying to modernize our current >>>> roller.apache.org site, so it only has to be better than that right now), >>>> and changes that anyone can do after the site goes live. >>>> >>>> Don't worry about hurting my feelings--the purpose of this website is to >>>> expand Roller's usership many-fold, if you don't think this design will >>>> accomplish it, I want to hear it. :) >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Glen >>> >> >
