[Gluster-users] New Gluster Website

[Justin Clift]

On 4 May 2015, at 12:52, Soumya Deb <deb at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Gluster 3.7 release is nearing & I was really expecting to have a brand new website to look forward to with the new release (along with the new docs).
> 
> Last discussion we had, was inconclusive on the mailing list. I had a chance to catch up with DV, tigert, Vijay & Sankarshan. It was still inconclusive, but a consensus was made, that whichever effort comes out to be more complete, we'll go with that.
> 
> Right now we have: http://code.debs.io/glusterweb/ & http://glusternew-tigert.rhcloud.com/
> 
> Apart from the contents, presentation & the simplicity of UX, here's a benchmark on technicalities:
> http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150504_WY_GSW/
> http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150504_53_GVQ/
> 
> IMO, http://code.debs.io/glusterweb/ is more ready (but I made it, so of course I'm biased; but isn't it?)
> Was given feedback to change "blog" to "planet" & add the old gluster ant logo; open for more suggestions.
> 
> So, I needed to ask & understand, which website are we going ahead with, and why?
> 
> [Fine Print: if having a maintainer is a blocker & no one else is up to it, I can totally put on that hat]
> [Finer Print: if you're unsure whether I can manage this static site - I actively manage 10+ live staging+production servers, 20+ VMs & 50+ PaaS instances (300+ sites & subdomains); some of them running half a dozen runtimes, simultaneously (for frugality), with zero reported or recorded incidents for 3+ years].

Muaaa Haaaa Haaaa.  You're likely to be our new official "keeper of
the website infrastructure" then. :D

For the "which one do we go with...?" question.  I'll leave that to
you guys to figure out. ;)

+ Justin

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