It seems the discussion has died down. I'm going to plan to finalize the last few parts, make the jenkins job also build the legacy bits and move to the new site sometime next week.
I'll drop a mail when I have the last of it staged and ready to go. John On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:27 AM John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:50 PM Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 5:35 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> >> 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. >> >> > Hi Patrick, > > Thanks for the input. I've started to add it to the new version, let me > know your thoughts. There's still a few areas to tweak, but definitely > keep it coming. > > I have to still add a link to google search. > > John > > >> Patrick >> >> >> > John >> > >> >
