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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:00:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@generationjava.com>
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [lang] maven site
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Tim O'Brien wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Henri Yandell wrote:
> > The solution I think is to change the Commons site utterly. Stop it being
> > an umbrella site, and turn it into more of a portal. Something that lists
> > the site but doesn't have any need for a change to the portal page to
> > imply a change to all sub-pages [beyond a change of logo].
>
> I hear what you are saying on one level, but I don't think that this issue
> is completely unsolvable.  I think we need to make a three month plan with
> some milestones, and talk about a unified rendering strategy.  In the
> short-term I think unified Navigation would be a straightforward thing to
> do with our current setup, and I'm willing to put in the time (and donate
> my own hardware) resources for testing out some strategies.
>
> I'll put together a proposal about how Commons should approach site gen.

Sounds good. This is the best way to handle such touchy issues as a common
way to handle all projects I think. Is Wiki a good place to draft your
proposal?

[Personally I liked my xslt toy stuff to put maven projects into
categories *grin*]

Hen


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