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Re: New LilyPond website
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Graham Percival |
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Re: New LilyPond website |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 07:43:41 +0000 |
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:31:39PM -0500, John Roper wrote:
> Ok, so what are the major things you would like from a new web redesign
> (not including the docs)?
> I know of:
> Not reliant on JavaScript
> Can be translated
> Can be updated with each new build
There's a few non-negotiable points:
- no server-side processing, no "dynamic" website. We're using
a donated shared server. Anything which increases our resource
load or opens a security risk is a non-starter.
- can be created automatically from source. (This is probably
implied by your "can be updated with each new build" point, but
better to be clear up-front.)
A few points which are highly encouraged, but which I suppose
could be negotated:
- should be relatively easy for newcomers to update. Texinfo
qualifies; I guess that HTML could qualify as long as there's
a clear separation of content and styling. Markdown would
certainly satisfy this point, but I'm not confident that it can
do everything we'd want.
- work within the existing system. We have a lot of developers,
and a lot of history. There are certainly many ways that our
processes can be improved, but we generally have reasons why
things are the way they are.
- last December, I prepared a github repository specifically to
address the case of somebody wanting to modify the website:
https://github.com/gperciva/lilypond-web-css
One person started working on this, and her first change has
already been accepted to the LilyPond git repository.
Unfortunately her progress has stalled a bit due to my health
and various deadlines on Feb 4, but I hope to pick things up
next week.
I strongly recommend that you take a look at that repository and
follow the steps outlined there. As Werner and Urs recommended,
start with one small change -- "evolution, not revolution". See
what kind of reaction that gets, let it go through the development
process, then repeat.
Cheers,
- Graham
- Re: New LilyPond website, John Roper, 2017/02/02
- Re: New LilyPond website, John Roper, 2017/02/03
- Blended, static site generator [WAS: Re: New LilyPond website], Federico Bruni, 2017/02/03
- Re: Blended, static site generator [WAS: Re: New LilyPond website], David Kastrup, 2017/02/04
- Re: Blended, static site generator [WAS: Re: New LilyPond website], John Roper, 2017/02/04
- Re: Blended, static site generator [WAS: Re: New LilyPond website], Simon Albrecht, 2017/02/04
- Re: Blended, static site generator [WAS: Re: New LilyPond website], David Kastrup, 2017/02/04
- Re: Blended, static site generator [WAS: Re: New LilyPond website], John Roper, 2017/02/04