RFC: docs website layout demo

[Jeffrey Fearn]

Hi, Rudi asked me to do a demo of how Fedora could make a rebuilt docs website look, so I've made a demo site & tweaked it a bit. Before I spend too much effort on it I thought I'd open it up for input.

I wanted to get a bit more done before the weekend, but time slipped away. I wanted to get it out for some feedback over the weekend so I can do some more on Monday, so I'd thought I'd just put it out there and hope people can understand it is only half baked.

Some of the stuff I did for this I liked so I've started migrating the template changes back in to publican, leaving this site with just some colour changes on what a default web_style 2 site will look like. I'll update my fedora people site next week so show what a default site will look like.

I've made a script to pull out most of the docs packages from git, and run through a bunch of branches per book, and try to build them with the latest publican. I'll make the script available next week for people who want to build their own copy. It should be useful to QA the process as it spits out a log file out for each repo and branch so you can get a good list of what's broken and what's not. I'll also put those up on my fedora people site next week ... If I have any quota left :D

Demo site is https://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/fdocs/en-US/index.html

I think this is a pretty good layout https://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/fdocs/en-US/index.html#Fedora

Colours are hard :-/

Note if you click a group, below the versions, then it filters out all the other groups.

Note that in the "System administration" group for Fedora 20 there is an external link "The Ways And Means Of Pants" which is a fake URL, if you have a couple of examples of real external links you'd like in that group, or any other group, I'd be happy to swap out the fake one.

I haven't changed the brand XSL for the html payload, I'd like to remove the old left and right logos at the top of the pages. They aren't really needed given the menu content.

e.g. https://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/fdocs/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/index.html

bah I just noticed a bug on that page,  the first two items in the navigation menu are swapped ... :(

I'm sure there are lots more :}

I've built html, html-single, epub & pdf.

The site is only in en-US, it's 417M and I'm not sure the hosting people would be happy if I hosted more languages :)

Anyway, it's Friday evening and the wine is calling, please reply if you have any ideas or feedback, beware that I'm currently hacking on the publican devel branch, so I might steal any really cool ideas for publican.next ;)

Cheers, Jeff.

P.S. All the RSS feeds on there should work, but you probably do not want to sign up for that site!