Cool, take your time. Thanks, based on the experience with Bootstrap elsewhere, it sounds like a good idea.
Regards, Werner On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Radu Cotescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've started working on improving the website, but I'm doing this in my > own corner when I have a bit of free time. It's based on Bootstrap with > custom theming, to suite us. > > Will ping you all when I have something demo-able (in at least two weeks, > as I'm on PTO next week). > > Regards, > Radu > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks, that falls under the "Improve Website" ones. >> >> You'll find plenty of Eclipse projects including the new front page where >> Bootstrap was applied. >> Similar to either Unit-API (our JSR 363) >> http://unitsofmeasurement.github.io/ or JavaMoney for JSR 354: >> http://javamoney.org just to mention 2 active JSRs where a public >> website uses GitHub and therefore a slightly similar site mechanism as >> described below, or Agorava: http://agorava.org, also backed by GitHub. >> >> Btw, DeltaSpike uses more or less the same Bootstrap template: >> https://deltaspike.apache.org/ If you switch to some pages, it even >> shows a bug or layout glitch (maybe the design was intended for a 800x600 >> screen, too and never adjusted?[?]) I noticed both at JavaMoney and >> Unit-API (where I was careful in most cases to layout around it) in a >> similar way. >> The top header "hops" when you have a page that contains more or less >> content, could be with and without scrolling, I can't say but it >> consistently affects hundreds or thousands of projects using that template. >> >> It would be awesome if based on one of the best device repositories >> available (if you take true Open Source then it's even fewer) we could make >> the DeviceMap site mobile-enabled and show, we "eat our own dogfood"[?] >> >> Not all of the "blog" like impression most of these makes may have to be >> used the same way. A second mailing list or any other form of announcement >> for "users" could be a good addition. >> At the moment this list is for developers, most of them core committers, >> but if you want to get people involved around use cases and how to use it >> rather than contributing to DeviceMap itself, it could be a good sign to >> add a "users" list. Aside from the mailing list via Google Groups (which >> was never used for discussions as much as this one) the Twitter account was >> pretty succesful with close to 400 followers. Neither the old "Wurfl >> Project" nor a new commercial SM account come close, and they have at least >> part time regular people working for it, OpenDDR is a self-runner for now, >> and after my effort shifted to DeviceMap I rarely post there, yet people >> still seem to follow and not many abandoned it, especially decicion-makers >> at Facebook and other companies are loyals followers. >> >> Bertrand among most others has a personal user, not sure, if creating one >> for the project makes sense or not? Otherwise the hashtag #DeviceMap (with >> #Apache in most cases) could be fine, there are some Twitter queries to >> display that if you want on a page. >> >> Werner >> >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I meant to explain how to do that but it was easier to just do it ;-) >>> >>> The downloads page is at >>> http://incubator.apache.org/devicemap/download/ - it uses the Apache >>> mirroring system to select a mirror based on geolocation. >>> >>> The content is at >>> >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/site/trunk/content/devicemap/download/ >>> - further releases can be added to index.mdtext. >>> >>> See >>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/site/trunk/WEBSITE-HOWTO.txt >>> for how to edit that content. >>> >>> -Bertrand >>> >> >> >
