[mapserver-dev] Proposing some homepage changes...

[Howard Butler]

ok.  installed. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx Sphinx 1.0 went beta 1 last night, so we're not running totally unreleased code now.

 
On May 25, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

> I'm also +1 for installing sphinx 1.0-dev
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> -jeff
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> Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
>> +1 on installing the unreleased code.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Howard Butler
>> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 8:35 AM
>> To: MapServer Dev Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Proposing some homepage changes...
>> As I chatted with Jeff on IRC the other day, this is quite easy to do with the unreleased Sphinx 1.0 trunk (See an example that I did for libLAS at http://test.liblas.org .  The question is whether or not we want to wait until 1.0 is actually released, or install the unreleased code (it's been quite stable for me for quite a while and I know that MapServer's site builds just fine with it) on mapserver.org (and geotools.org too).
>> Georg hasn't yet stated when the 1.0 release date for Sphinx will be, and he usually releases things "when they're ready", so it might be a bit.
>> Howard
>> On May 7, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>> Hi Steve, Jeff,
>>> 
>>> I just wanted to add that I like the changes you are suggesting and are working on.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Daniel
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>> I fully agree with you.
>>>> I made some minor changes so that the announcement sections no longer appear in the TOC: http://www.mapserver.org/
>>>> I also made an attempt to clean up the left sidebar nav, with the sections that you suggested, through our Sphinx layout template: http://www.mapserver.org/trunk/en/index.html
>>>> Impressions/comments?
>>>> Personally, I like it better.  What I don't like is the "Table of Contents" section that still remains on that index page - oh I tried to remove it, searching the Sphinx Google group, trying many different ways, but in the end I failed to remove it.  It only appears on some pages though.
>>>> It's a start?
>>>> -jeff
>>>> Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
>>>>> Hi all: I'd like to propose some changes to the mapserver.org homepage. Wondering how feasible they'll be via Sphinx:
>>>>> 
>>>>> - Breadcrumb. Really should start at "Home" and then go from there, e.g.:
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Home >> Documentation >> MapScript  or
>>>>>   Home >> FAQ
>>>>>   Home >> Develelopment >> RFCs
>>>>> 
>>>>> - TOC on the homepage shouldn't be announcements but rather something like:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Community
>>>>>   Mailing Lists
>>>>>   IRC
>>>>>   Wiki
>>>>> Development    Documentation
>>>>>   Introduction
>>>>>   FAQ
>>>>>   Mapfiles
>>>>>   MapScript
>>>>> Downloads
>>>>> Issue Tracker
>>>>> 
>>>>> - Announcements could continue below the fold on the main part of the homepage
>>>>> 
>>>>> It's not user friendly as is. The shorter, more meaningful TOC would also help to pull the OSGEO and FOSS4G icons up the page. Thoughts?
>>>>> 
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