Nikhil, I recommend creating some kind of survey with carefully crafted questions to discover what the SymPy community (users and devs) might want in a website upgrade. Maybe you can come up with 5 or 6 key questions that take < 5 mins to complete to try to get a broad sampling of opinions and then advertise it beyond the mailing list and Github. Given the results, I would lean to prioritizing SymPy user needs over SymPy developer needs in the work you do. It may be tempting to spend lots of time on a fancy website build system instead of updating the content, organization, and appearance of the website, but I believe the latter is much more important.
As for choice in static site generators I'd recommend 1) choosing one that is very likely to be popular and well maintained in the long run, 2) reduces the amount of work needed to convert from the current website, 3) and, if possible, written in Python because our community knows Python and will have little trouble writing extensions, modifications, for any special things we desire. Good idea! Share the proposal as you draft it and we can give you feedback. Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nikhil Maan <nikhilmaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I would like to work on this as a NUMFOCUS grant project. What kind of > changes do we want in the website? > As for the static generators, in my experience, I found hugo to be simpler > and easier to use for everyone and it also has a vast library of themes > that we can use. The main problem I've had with it is it's in a pre v1 > release, so some things do tend to break sometimes with some releases. > > On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 9:16:02 PM UTC+5:30 nicog...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I think that using a static generator would have advantages from the >> translation point-of-view as well. >> >> >> On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 3:27:28 PM UTC-5, Aaron Meurer wrote: >>> >>> I think we can modify the backend, but we should be prepared as >>> mentors to do the programming work. Conversely, I don't know if it >>> would make sense to make any changes without feedback from a technical >>> writer if we are going to get one, so I don't know if it makes sense >>> to do anything like this now, aside from initial research into what >>> alternatives are out there. >>> >>> Aaron Meurer >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/ac3605e5-763a-48ac-bcf3-c97cebfe0bedn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/ac3605e5-763a-48ac-bcf3-c97cebfe0bedn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AiuA%2B%3D0t6CE2O4Aq-J4puBsvg64nk2jDvgUTo7M-UFxfQ%40mail.gmail.com.
