Note that we'd also like to continue generating a PDF manual. That's fairly useful for airgapped networks and other restrictive development environments.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 10:06, Volkan Yazıcı <volkan.yaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My tentative plan is the following: > > 1. Get a brand new shiny logo! > 2. Get a brand new design > - for the landing page (HTML, CSS, and images) > - for internal pages directly accessed by the landing page (HTML, CSS) > - for AsciiDoc-generated reference manual theme (CSS) > 3. Migrate all reference manual to AsciiDoc – we are almost there > 4. Update AsciiDoc theme > 5. Restructure existing manual sections and content (this is big!) > 6. Create a landing website for Log4j using new designs and JBake, which > we already use > 7. Make reference manual accessible in two flavors: > 1. /doc/reference/latest/index.html > 2. /doc/reference/<release>/index.html > > As you might guess, only the first two tasks will be done by the hired > professional. The rest is still on our shoulders. > > Note that the reference manual will still be built from the sources via > asciidoc-maven-plugin. Same applies to the landing page generation via > JBake. Hence I will only touch the content, not the mechanics. > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 1:14 AM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: > > > Well, I would love to know what you have in mind before we make a lot of > > changes. Using Maven to build the web site isn’t particularly fun but it > > does build a lot of the web site with very little effort. > > > > Ralph > > > > > > > > > On Mar 9, 2021, at 4:49 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Mar 9, 2021, at 2:35 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Also a while back we had a logo contest and from then on changed the > > >> logo with every release. All the logos might be in git somewhere... > > > > > > I believe I have all the previous logos and you probably do too. Look in > > src/site/resources/logo. They are all pretty much the same except for > > using different color schemes. All I did for each release was pick one and > > add the release number to it. > > > > > > You can look at all the previous versions of the web site. For example > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.6/index.html and > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.8.1/index.html. > > > > > > > > > Ralph > > > > > > > > >> > > >> Gary > > >> > > >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 4:34 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >>> > > >>> The ASF has graphics people that Apache-fy logos and such, I think you > > >>> just need to email the marketing list. > > >>> > > >>> Gary > > >>> > > >>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 4:18 PM Volkan Yazıcı <volkan.yaz...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>> I have been tinkering for a while chipping in €500 from my pocket to > > revamp > > >>>> Log4j logo and website. I personally think it will be really sad to > > >>>> announce Log4j 3 to the public with the current visuals. Log4j is by > > far > > >>>> the best Java logging framework out there in the wild – no, I am not > > biased > > >>>> at all ;P – though our website is far from reflecting that. Before > > asking > > >>>> for some cash from you people, I was wondering if ASF can help us out > > here; > > >>>> contribute financially, provide a designer, etc. Do you have any > > ideas? > > >>>> > > >>>> And... What do you think about the idea? > > >>>> > > >>>> P.S. I am very well aware that such an update to the website is going > > to > > >>>> necessitate quite some rewrite of the documentation. Yeah... But we > > need to > > >>>> start from somewhere. > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
