I don't think the website has any major limitations. It's still pretty good and definitely does the job. But it can still use some minor improvements.
Here are some of the things I think can be updated. The landing page looks a little cluttered, we can clean that up a little bit. The last change to the roadmap was 2 years ago, might as well update it. I think the support and Development pages can also be merged and improved, and the other pages can also use a revision. Sometimes from the looks, the website feels it was created by someone as a hobby for a project handled by a couple of people, not a project with hundreds of developers, but that's just my opinion. Now, our conference, PyCon India, is getting really close, so I'm a little crunched on time this weekend. So, I'll come up with the survey questions for users in a couple of days, sometime this week. We can also advertise the survey on our twitter along with the mailing list and GitHub. As for the static generator, let me do some research and see if changing to another generator would bring any useful feature without much effort of porting. I'll come back to that and create an issue if I find something suitable that can be useful to us, otherwise, we can just revise and update the content. P.S.: Going through the website, I checked the IRC logs, and they look mostly empty except a few people joining and leaving sometime. So, we have an IRC channel? and we're not using it? Regards, Nikhil Maan On Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 1:26:54 AM UTC+5:30 asme...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm curious what you see as the limitations of the existing website? I > personally think our current website is fine. Maybe some of the content > could be improved or moved around a bit, but I don't know if that > necessitates a new static generator for it. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:32 AM Jason Moore <moore...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 <(530)%20601-9791> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nikhil Maan <nikhil...@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+un...@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+un...@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 >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AiuA%2B%3D0t6CE2O4Aq-J4puBsvg64nk2jDvgUTo7M-UFxfQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. 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