[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/16] Move the Mesa Website to Sphinx

[Eric Engestrom]

On Thursday, 2018-05-31 21:33:16 -0400, mesa-dev-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Jordan Justen
> <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> wrote:
> > On 2018-05-31 16:06:13, Laura Ekstrand wrote:
> >> A little bit of messing around this afternoon, led to this:
> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rteTv9415XEMN1E11fyN0l3hTUCCbgwz/view?usp=sharing
> >
> > Nice. That confirms we can easily get back to a something closer to
> > the older look in short order. (Unless the consensus is to actually
> > stay with the generic look.)
> >
> >> The gears are from Font Awesome, which comes with the RTD format.
> >
> > It'd be nice to get the icon back, but the gear glyph is an
> > improvement compared to the house glyph.
> >
> > Anyway, I stick by what I said below too in reply to Eric about
> > withdrawing my feedback.
> 
> my $0.02 (which is probably worth even less when it comes to the topic
> of aesthetics), Laura's new proposal looks much nicer than generic rtd
> which looks better than current site..
> 
> I mostly don't want to get a much needed infrastructure/process
> improvement derailed with a bikeshed discussion about themes.  Nothing
> against playing with theme options and seeing what people (with better
> taste than me) like, just don't want that to be something that derails
> the bigger picture ;-)

Entirely agreed. I also think the old style was distinctive and had
become part of the "personality" of our website, and I would like the
new website to look similar, but this is a minor detail that we can
trivially alter later.

For now let's focus on the infrastructure changes, discussing the style
can be done in parallel or later, but shouldn't block this.

> 
> BR,
> -R
> 
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Jordan
> >
> >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 2018-05-31 12:27:04, Eric Anholt wrote:
> >> > > Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> writes:
> >> > >
> >> > > > On 2018-05-24 17:37:09, Laura Ekstrand wrote:
> >> > > >> A few of the commits are quite large and awaiting list approval.  I
> >> > suggest
> >> > > >> that you take a look at the code here:
> >> > > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ldeks/mesa/tree/website1_75,
> >> > > >> and the new website here: https://mesa-test.freedesktop.
> >> > org/index.html
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I think the theme should be changed to look somewhat close to the
> >> > > > current mesa3d.org website before changing the main site. (Color
> >> > > > scheme and missing icons.)
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Right now the test website looks like a million other sphinx websites,
> >> > > > including every readthedocs book.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Based on http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/ and
> >> > > > https://www.python.org/, I would say sphinx gives a lot of
> >> > > > opportunities for a custom look.
> >> > >
> >> > > I think looking like a generic other sphinx website is a step forward,
> >> > > and I look forward to this series landing.  No need for continuity with
> >> > > the old theme.
> >> >
> >> > I think it is 1 step forward, 1 step back. As no else appears to
> >> > agree, I'll withdraw my feedback.
> >> >
> >> > -Jordan
> >> >
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