Re: [rt-pmc] web site updates

[Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suspect it is because the url is on download.eclipse.org.  If i recall, all the URLs get normalized to http://eclipse.org/...  The expectation is that people are maintaining their project website on eclipse.org not download.eclipse.org.

Jeff


On 2010-10-06, at 9:38 AM, Jesse McConnell wrote:

> http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/paragraph.html
> 
> Why would those contents not render on the front of the new page? They
> are pointed to in the paragraph url.
> 
> looking nice!
> 
> cheers,
> jesse
> 
> --
> jesse mcconnell
> jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 22:55, Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I spent a bit of time today prototyping an update for the RT website (http://eclipse.org/rt).  The old one is clunky looking, not that informative and completely manual.
>> 
>> The prototype is at
>>        http://www.eclipse.org/rt/testweb/
>> 
>> Interesting characteristics:
>> - the list of projects is generated from the project database.
>> - the descriptions etc are harvested from the database as well
>> - the news column on the right side will (when a bug is fixed) be driven by a aggregation of blogs related to RT.
>> 
>> What you need to do:
>> - Most of the projects do not have complete information in the database.  In particular, the following need to be filled in for this to be useful
>>        paragraph url  (this will show up in the list on the RT page.  Short and sweet)
>>                *** note that due to a bug, this must be a http://www.eclipse.org/... url.
>>        downloads url
>>        description url
>>        getting started url
>>        documentation url
>>        any other info that looks useful
>> - fix your project name to not say xxx Project.
>> Please check your project metadata to ensure it is up to date.
>> 
>> Future directions
>> - improve the logo on the top left
>> - update the subpages
>> - figure out interesting stuff to put in the boxes at the top right and the menu bar
>> - replace the Eclipse logo at the top left with the EclipseRT logo
>> 
>> Let me know what you think.  This should be on the agenda for next weeks call.
>> 
>> Jeff
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