On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Nick Williams < nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote:
> Guys, > > There are a couple of things about the site that have been bugging me. I > wanted to run some ideas by you and see what you think. Since I can commit > now, I can take care of them once we come to a consensus. :-) > > -- One -- > On the "Project Team" pages, the "Actual Time" column is wrong for most of > us. For those of us in the United States, it's one hour behind. Only for > Remko is it right. For example, at 17:38:55 Central Time, here is what it > said for all of us: > > Ralph: Sat May 11 2013 14:38:55 GMT-0500 (CDT) (it's actually 15:38 there) > Gary: Sat May 11 2013 17:38:55 GMT-0500 (CDT) (it's actually 18:38 there) > Scott: Sat May 11 2013 14:38:55 GMT-0500 (CDT) (it's actually 15:38 there) > Remko: Sun May 12 2013 07:38:55 GMT-0500 (CDT) (the time is correct) > Me: Sat May 11 2013 16:38:55 GMT-0500 (CDT) (it's actually 17:38 here) > > Not only is the time wrong for four of us, but they ALL say GMT-0500 > (CDT), which is obviously incorrect for all of us except me. > The time is all messed up for my entry, the minutes are not even right! > > I did some looking around at other Maven-generated sites, and the problem > seems to be the same on all of them. Wrong for people on Daylight Savings > Time, and always displaying the wrong time zone for everyone: > > http://maven.apache.org/team-list.html > http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/11/team-list.html > > This appears to be a problem with the Maven plugin itself, not with our > site. The time appears to be calculated dynamically using JavaScript after > the page loads. Is anyone aware of any bug reports anywhere concerning this > issue? If not, I'll file a bug. > > -- Two -- > On the "Project Team" pages, I suggest we remove the Roles column. Remko > is the only one with any data in that column, and I think that makes it > look like he doesn't contribute as much as the rest of us. Remko has > contributed more than just what's listed in that column. Is everyone okay > with removing that column? > Like Ralph said, this should be PMC Member, Committer or Contributor. > > -- Three -- > On the "Project Team" pages, none of us have images. I suggest we either > add images for all of us or remove the column (as it's taking up > unnecessary space). Remko already has an image URL in the POM, but it's > commented out. I'm all for images, personally, but what do y'all think? > Adding images is fine with me. > > -- Four -- > The first item I visited the Log4j2 site, the "Download" and "Build and > Install" links confused me. The Download page contained links to download > the assembly JAR ... makes sense. But no Maven information. The "Build and > Install" page contained Maven information, which was counter-intuitive, but > worse the Maven information was BELOW information about building and > installing, so you don't actually see it unless you scroll down. "Using > Log4j on your classpath" is also on the "Build and Install" page, but it > makes more sense (to me) on the "Download" page, as you only need that > information if you're manually downloading the binaries. > > My suggestion: > > - "Download" contains what it does now plug "Using Log4j on your > classpath" (moved from the "Build and Install" page). > - New page "Maven and Ivy" contains all of the Maven and Ivy information > from the "Build and Install" page. > - "Build and Install" gets renamed to "Build" and contains only > information about building Log4j > > Thoughts? > Go for it. Gary > > Nick > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
