+1 You're my hero, Claude.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Claude Brisson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Folks.
>
> The site hasn't moved for years, and nobody really knows how to build it
> (it used patched Maven plugins that were once installed somewhere on a
> machine that has since disappeared).
>
> Should we want to release something today, we're more or less stuck. Plus,
> the design is now really outdated, there are plenty of dead links, etc...
>
> So I felt it was time to do something about it, and I had a few days this
> week : the opportinuty makes the thief, I revamped the site layout and
> moved its sources from xdoc/apt/doap/... to markdown and xslt (and a few
> lines of perl).
>
> The site sources are visible here:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity/site/cms/trunk/
>
> There is a preview here: http://test.renegat.net
>
> I made several choices in the revamping process. I'll try to lighten a bit
> the menus, moved Anakia, DVSL, Texen and DocBook Framework to an Archive
> section, got rid of most of useless empty report pages but tried to keep
> most essential ones. If you feel something is missing, just tell me.
>
> Now to the vote: switch to this new site and to the Apache CMS?
>
> [  ] -1
> [  ] 0
> [  ]+1
>
> Should the vote pass, I'll open an infra issue to switch to the Apache CMS.
>
> Once done, every commiter will be able to update pages on the site by use
> of a simple bookmarklet (which will commit changes, let one preview the
> staged result, then push changes to the production site). Other users can
> use the bookmarklet to submit patches.
>
>
>   --
>   Claude
>
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