[Gluster-users] Request for feedback on staging.gluster.org

[Eco Willson]

Great to hear that you guys are liking it.  To be clear, the work on the site design was actually done by two members of the Red Hat OSAS (Open Source and Standards) team, Tuomas Kuosmanen and Garrett LeSage who do a lot of work for projects (their work shows up in other notable places like the RDO website, oVirt, CentOS and others).  My work has mostly been the manual squirrel herding to convert the existing site into the new framework.

As far as having forum type functions, no there is no plan for that at this time.  We had tried a similar Q and A forum before that did not work out mainly due to management headaches IIRC.  Keep in mind that the framework for the site is Middleman, which essentially generates static content so it is not natively built to do dynamic pages that would be required for a forum style.  Plugins for functionality like that may exist for Middleman but we haven't looked into it.

-- Eco

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lalatendu Mohanty" <lmohanty at redhat.com>
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 4:24:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Request for feedback on staging.gluster.org

On 05/30/2014 04:40 AM, Eco Willson wrote:
> Dear Community members,
>
> We have been working on a new site design and we would love to get your feedback.  You can check things out at staging.gluster.org.  Things are still very much in beta (a few pages not displaying properly or at all, etc), but we decided to roll things out so that we can get a list of improvements (and hopefully help from) the community.  If you would like to test the most recent changes on your own machine, you can do the following:
>
>   git clone git at forge.gluster.org:gluster-site/gluster-site.git
>
>   git clone git at forge.gluster.org:~eco/gluster-docs-project/ecos-gluster-docs-project.git (this is the temporary testing grounds, we will switch back to the official docs-project once initial evaluation is complete)
>
>   cd gluster-site
>
>   gem install bundle
>
>   gem install middleman
>
>   bundle exec middleman
>
> You will need to manually copy or symlink the contents of the gluster-docs-project/htmltext/documentation folder into the gluster-site/source/documentation directory for testing currently. Once you `bundle exec middleman`, you can point a browser to localhost:4567
>
> Looking forward to feedback and submissions!
>
> Regards,
>
> Eco
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Awesome stuff!!


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