Re: [VOTE] Cayenne web site

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 04:55:24 EST

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    FYI: http://cayenne.apache.org was been created. For now I am
    maintaining the old incubator site, but now we can go ahead and do
    work for the new site, and publish it when it is ready.

    Ari and others, let me know if you need my help on any of that.

    Andrus

    On Jan 8, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

    > So. let's tally the vote.
    >
    > +1 Ari Maniatis
    > +1 Kevin Menard
    > +1 Andrus Adamchik
    > +1 Malcolm Edgar
    > +1 Michael Gentry
    >
    > This is the case of lazy consensus, so we won't wait for 3 PMC
    > votes and move ahead. Ari submitted signed scans of the CLA forms
    > already via email, so we should be clear on that front as well (Jim
    > do we accept those? I think we do)
    >
    > So once we replace the logo (and solve remaining design issues if
    > any), I'll check in the auto-export confluence template (that also
    > contains the menus) to SVN, so that we could apply it to our main
    > space with CAY key, and update it as needed. From there we can
    > start porting the contents.
    >
    > Andrus
    >
    >
    >
    > On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
    >
    >> Hi Andrus - is this the right thing to post to the dev list?
    >>
    >> ----
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Some time ago on the user list there was a discussion about
    >> improvements to the Cayenne web site, and a new design. Over the
    >> break, most of the remaining issues have been addressed and tests
    >> performed on getting this to work with Confluence, between Bruce
    >> Martin, Andrus and myself.
    >>
    >>
    >> Please look at the following demo site:
    >>
    >> http://www.brucemartin.net/cayenne/
    >>
    >> Please note the following:
    >>
    >> 1. Cayenne has left incubator status and therefore the logo in the
    >> top right will be replaced and the message at the bottom will be
    >> removed
    >> 2. The copy on the page and the menus to the left are not set in
    >> stone and not the subject of this vote. They can be changed at any
    >> time by Cayenne committers with the appropriate access rights to
    >> Confluence.
    >> 3. The site will be deployed within the Atlassian Confluence wiki.
    >> The demo site is purely static, since Confluence has no way to
    >> create a test staging area. However we did testing with a
    >> secondary offline copy of Confluence and it works as expected.
    >> There may be further effort involved in getting the new stories to
    >> display as shown but this needs to be done as part of the
    >> deployment process. You can see the test staging area here http://
    >> wiki.objectstyle.org/auto-export/CAYSCRATCH/ but note there are
    >> still some cosmetic problems there which require clean up. But it
    >> works. The edit pages are here http://wiki.objectstyle.org/
    >> confluence-scratch/ and will not be styled as part of this work.
    >> 4. Since ish is based in Sydney where Atlassian are located, and
    >> as an existing paid customer of theirs, we've already made
    >> extensive use of their support services.
    >>
    >> I'd like to ask for votes on this design, remembering that the
    >> vote is on the design and concept rather than specific menu
    >> structure.
    >>
    >> I'll start with a non-binding +1 from me.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> The external costs of this work has been sponsored by ish and
    >> myself, since the design has been created and implemented by a
    >> professional web designer who I've engaged, in conjunction with my
    >> own copywriting and design ideas as well as Andrus's guidance.
    >>
    >> If we receive a positive vote outcome, then we will proceed to fix
    >> the remaining cosmetic problems with the Confluence integration
    >> and put the new site live.
    >>
    >>
    >> Ari Maniatis
    >>
    >>
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