On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 5:35 AM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> wrote:
> All, > > I'd like to start the process to move forward on a new incubator website. > Based on discussions in the past on list, I wanted to do the following: > > - Roll out a new technology stack + repository > - Leave content in place, while we work later on content enhancements > > For right now, I'm planning to leave the existing /projects and > /ip-clearance in place. My hope is that we may not need them in the > future. > > The website staging area can be seen here: > https://incubator.apache.org/ngtest/ > The git repository for the site can be seen here: > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator.git;a= > shortlog;h=refs/heads/jbake-site > (with > github mirror at https://github.com/apache/incubator/tree/jbake-site ) > > I'd like to get some final feedback on the layout and colors (not the > content). I want to start tracking content enhancements in JIRA to help > come up with a backlog of areas of improvement for our incubator guides. > > I'm very familiar with the old layout, so this may be coloring my feedback. However I find the new layout to be less usable than previous. In particular the drop downs lack structure. I think it would be better to focus on "solutions" e.g. "bootstrapping a new podling" along with assoc docs, or "graduating a podingling" etc... - basically focus around the lifecycle of podling rather than a big long list of "guides". Additionally it's hard to find things with the new layout, I used to use the browser "search" feature to narrow down to a particular doc. Now I need to click on each of the drop downs to find the content I'm looking for. Additionally things like wiki/faq/etc... - can't find them at all. Patrick > John >
