In case the list breaks the URL to view the Jenkins build, here's a shorter URL:
https://s.apache.org/df7ew. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:12 PM Cassandra Targett <ctarg...@apache.org> wrote: > The PMC would like to engage the Solr user community for feedback on an > extensive redesign of the Solr Reference Guide I've just committed to the > master (future 9.0) branch. > > You can see the new design from our Jenkins build of master: > > https://builds.apache.org/view/L/view/Lucene/job/Solr-reference-guide-master/javadoc/ > > The hope is that you will receive these changes positively. If so, we'll > use this for the upcoming 8.6 Ref Guide and future releases. We also may > re-publish earlier 8.x versions so they use this design. > > I embarked on this project last December simply as an attempt to upgrade > the version of Bootstrap used by the Guide. After a couple of days, I'd > changed the layout entirely. In the ensuing few months I've tried to iron > out the kinks and made some extensive changes to the "backend" (the CSS, > JavaScript, etc.). > > I'm no graphic designer, but some of my guiding thoughts were to try to > make full use of the browser window, improve responsiveness for different > sized screens, and just give it a more modern feel. The full list of what > has changed is detailed in the Jira issue if you are interested: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14173 > > This is Phase 1 of several changes. There is one glaring remaining issue, > which is that our list of top-level categories is too long for the new > design. I've punted fixing that to Phase 2, which will be an extensive > re-consideration of how the Ref Guide is organized with the goal of > trimming down the top-level categories to only 4-6. SOLR-14444 will track > phase 2. > > One last thing to note: this redesign really only changes the presentation > of the pages and some of the framework under the hood - it doesn't yet add > full-text search. All of the obstacles to providing search still exist, but > please know that we fully understand frustration on this point and still > hope to fix it. > > I look forward to hearing your feedback in this thread. > > Best, > Cassandra >
