[Incubator] OSGeo Portal Project Tailoring

[Daniel Brookshier]

On pointing offsite. The best you can do is look at the html and  
replace pieces with javascript. Look at the part of the menu you  
would like to replace or hide, iterate to it, then replace it with  
what you would like.

As an example, the script below removes the ugly project info at the  
top of the page (a common hack of CollabNet's software). Like all  
hacks, a site upgrade can break it, so make sure you remember to  
check it when that happens. In future I hope the need for this goes  
away. I've seen the latest versions that are coming and it is leaping  
way ahead of what we have now.

As for ProjectTracker(PT) verses Bugzilla off site. I would not  
recommend this only because PT is integrated into the platform so  
that annotations to code of PT reference are linked automatically.  
Also changes to PT within your project are sent to the issues email  
list. It is also integrated with our Life Cycle Application manger,  
but we have that disabled for now, but will probably turn it on after  
the next release because it will be simple to use.

Now to Doxygen. One thing you might consider is an iFrame view of  
that site. Alternatively, just get the essentials on the front page  
and point offsite. You can add a link to the left nav via scripting  
as I pointed out earlier, but a right nav might make it easier to  
distinguish specific content related to your project. Wish I could  
present a Doxygen alternative in the site, but web editable content  
is not going to be available for a few months.

You could do what we have done with the wiki which is hosted via a  
subdomain out of Germany. It would mean that the main page would be  
generic to OSGeo and we open it up to other projects to use. You  
would still be hosting. I do plan on adding a root reference to the  
left nav  for all projects.


    <script type="text/javascript">
       // This code removes the project page title and information.  
It may need to change when
	  // the CEE platform is upgraded.

       function replaceLinks() {
          try {
		 	var apphead = document.getElementById("apphead");
			if (apphead != null) {
				apphead.innerHTML = "";
			}	
             var projecthome = document.getElementById("projecthome");
			if (projecthome != null) {
				var tableCollection = projecthome.getElementsByTagName("table");
				if (tableCollection[0] != null)	{
					rowCount = tableCollection[0].rows.length;
					for (i = 0; i < rowCount; i++) {
						tableCollection[0].deleteRow(0);
					}
				}
			}
           } catch (e) {
           }
       }
       window.onload=replaceLinks;
    </script>



Daniel Brookshier
Community Manager
Office: 972-422-5261
Cell: 214-207-6614


On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> DanielB,
>
> I would like to tailor the gdal.osgeo.org project portal to remove
> various items I'm not using (or even to point them at relevant off
> site resources) but I don't know how to do that.  How would that
> be accomplished?
>
> For instance, I want to drop "forums", and perhaps point the
> Project Tracker off at the GDAL Bugzilla.
>
> The broader problem I have is that the GDAL web site is generated with
> Doxygen several times per day.  It isn't really practically for me to
> keep updating this in Subversion partly because Doxygen seems to  
> insist
> on adding timestamps for generation at the bottom.  Any suggestions on
> how to handle this?  Will gdal.osgeo.org just have a pointer on the
> web page off to http://www.gdal.org/?  Should we be acting to just  
> point
> gdal.osgeo.org to www.gdal.org?
>
> Best regards,
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