Today my wife and I have appointments, a long drive from home, to get our first COVID-19 injections. This will probably use up most of the day, leaving aside possible side-effects, so I likely will not have the wiki page about the web site ready to receive ideas and concerns until tomorrow at the earliest.
a On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 8:33 PM Maria Jose Esteve <[email protected]> wrote: > What dizziness! jajajaja > > Hiedra > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Andrew Wetmore <[email protected]> > Enviado el: viernes, 16 de abril de 2021 1:29 > Para: Apache Royale Development <[email protected]> > Asunto: Re: Use Royale to build the Royale website? > > This is great. > > To start, I think I will create a wiki page so we can capture what we must > have and what we would like to have in the website. For me, our website > must communicate useful and engaging information about our project and what > one can do with Royale. I would also like to include some features to > demonstrate a little bit of what Royale can do--maybe viewstates to manage > what displays when, localization (at least some of the site), responsive so > it appears well on laptops and mobile devices, use of CSS, and other > stuff...and then we can use the website itself as a demonstration of > Royale's versatility. > > The Infra guidelines say a project's site should not be dynamic, in the > sense of using HTTP calls to get data that it then displays: the site > should be "flat". But we may find that Royale code compiled to JavaScript > can do lots of interestng things wiithout breaking the Infra rules. > > I will set up the wiki page tomorrow and let you all know that it is > available for adding ideas. > > Andrew > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 5:42 PM Alina Kazi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > Great Maria and really its very good to show it in ApacheCon 2021. > > > > Great Idea Andrew, I would also love to contribute in any way I can. > > Also, If you have some design in mind. Share with us. > > Create a source repository,so we can start with jewel basic flat theme > > or any other option that community suggests. We start migrating > > wordpress website step by step. Until we have virtual machine or other > stuff ready. > > > > Alina Kazi > > > > > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, 10:03 PM Maria Jose Esteve, <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > Andrew, I can help, I think the community has to make an effort if > > > we > > want > > > to get to ApacheCon 2021 😝 > > > > > > Have you thought about a redesign of the website or a "translation"? > > > > > > How could I contribute? > > > > > > > > > > > > Hiedra > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > > De: Andrew Wetmore <[email protected]> Enviado el: jueves, 15 de > > > abril de 2021 1:51 > > > Para: Apache Royale Development <[email protected]> > > > Asunto: Use Royale to build the Royale website? > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi: > > > > > > > > > > > > At the moment the Royale website depends on a private server running > > > WordPress. I wonder if it is time to build and deploy it using > > > Royale itself. > > > > > > > > > > > > We don't need the great strengths of Royale--dynamic display, subtle > > > data-processing, and so on--to support the site. It is (as all > > > projects sites are intended to be) a flat, relatively static > > > website. That should mean that running our own website with the aid > > > of our own tool should be far from impossible. > > > > > > > > > > > > What is required? If I understand correctly, we would need Infra to > > > provide a virtual machine on which we could install and run a stable > > > instance of Royale, and a repository of the site's source code in > > > MXML > > and > > > AS files, just like a real Royale application.. Each time we updated > > > a > > page > > > or a file in the website repository, Infra's automated tools would > > > set > > off > > > a build and deployment of the updated site. > > > > > > > > > > > > Some time ago a proof-of-concept was partly built to do this very > > > thing, so we have some resources to start from. > > > > > > > > > > > > Benefits: > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Since it is a simple website, it should probably be an exercise > > > contributors and committers at many skill levels could help work on. > > > > > > -- It would give us a "brag" to point to. > > > > > > -- We would move over to open-source resources, rather than those of > > > WordPress.. > > > > > > -- Infra has an efficient and stable CI process in place that can > > > work with Royale's command-line to trigger builds and deployment. > > > > > > -- Other???? > > > > > > > > > > > > Costs: > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Time to migrate the existing site into Royale assets. > > > > > > -- Other????? > > > > > > > > > > > > What do you all think of such a proposal? > > > > > > > > > > > > a > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Andrew Wetmore > > > > > > > > -- > Andrew Wetmore > > http://cottage14.blogspot.com/ > -- Andrew Wetmore http://cottage14.blogspot.com/
