[Rock-dev] Proposal for a Rock website redesign

[Steffen Planthaber]

Hi,

I just discussed the possibility to use "github pages" to host the 
website with Kai from "rock-simulation". (https://pages.github.com/)

They had just set up their doc there:
http://rock-simulation.github.io/mars/


Currently the rock-robotics.org page is generated and uploaded by the 
dfki buildserver. It is also hosted by the DFKI.

Moving to github pages would make the page DFKI independent, which i 
personally like.

Setup is quite easy and the page then resides in a git repository in 
rock.core named "rock-core.github.io"

Additionally the content is automatically updated after someone pushed 
the repo. Additionally it is automatically processed by jekyll while 
updating so +1 for using jekyll.


We could set up the page in the new repo and figure out a way to update 
the Task APIs automatically (only them) from our buildserver.

This way, the site would be really community maintained and content 
updates can directly be pushed to the repo and will be updated directly 
on the homepage. Currently the update is only done after an successful 
build of all packages (API update), which can take several months sometimes.


Kind regards,

Steffen



Am 16.01.2015 um 14:13 schrieb Sylvain Joyeux:
> Cajahyba (from BIR) asked me to put online a redesign proposal for the
> Rock website. I finally did so (sorry for the long time, Cajahyba !)
>
> Example front page
>     http://www.jhaampe.org/rock-redesign/
>
> Example documentation page
>     http://www.jhaampe.org/rock-redesign/documentation/introduction/overview.html
>
> Obviously, before getting into the full-fledged work, we would like to
> have some feedback ...
>
> In addition, we were considering whether we should not use this to
> change the website generation tool. I picked webgen at the time before
> it looked really the best (given the constraint that one should be
> able to generate and browse the documentation offline). These days,
> especially given that we are now on github, jekyll took a lot of steam
> (and is IMO a lot better than webgen). We would appreciate some
> thoughts on the matter as well ...
>
> Sylvain
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