Thanks Arje for starting this thread. And, despite your (justified) negative view on the current state of our website, big thanks to those who have been investing lots of time trying to make it happen over the years. Few of us have been really paying attention, it's easy to make a lot of noise now about our site sucking now (nothing against you Arje, I'm speaking in general terms).
Our (collective) ambitions have often not been matched by our (individual) efforts. The history of the http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/CocoonWebsiteUpdate page says a lot about this, and Steven's efforts in getting a decent wiki going, at the time, are to be noticed as well - big thanks. If we can think in small steps instead of throwing out all our tools as we tend to do in such situations, I'd suggest simply finding a way to make the http://cocoon.apache.org/ homepage more alive, by making it easy and quick for us to update it indepentendly of the other pages. Heck, editing a static page might be good enough, or running an XSLT transform locally to generate it from a blog-like "news" XML file in order to have an RSS news feed as well. Add to this a link to a blog aggregator (planetcocoon.org?) for cocoon-related posts by members of this community, and we'd have much more life on our website already, with little effort. -Bertrand
