[Mesa-dev] New Mesa3D.org website proposal

[Jason Ekstrand]

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 9:07 AM Erik Faye-Lund
<erik.faye-lund at collabora.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 09:05 -0500, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> > Looks shiny but....
> >
> > We need to be very careful here. One of the big no-nos with Khronos
> > trademark rules is using logos for things where implementations
> > aren't
> > conformant.  Mesa has been living in a mirky in-between land for a
> > while and everything has been mostly fine.  We've been very careful
> > to
> > *not* say that Mesa is an implementation of any Khronos APIs.
> > Instead, we say that Mesa is an open-source software project that
> > contains implementations and that some of those implementations are
> > conformant.  That page full of logos makes me concerned that we're
> > going to risk getting into trouble.  Khronos marketing cares A LOT
> > about logos.
>
> As I wrote in the e-mail, I've already clarified the logo-usage with
> Khronos. They are happy with it as-is.

Sorry.  I should have done more reading.  Thanks for checking with them!

I think the new thing looks great!

--Jason



> > On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:33 AM Erik Faye-Lund
> > <erik.faye-lund at collabora.com> wrote:
> > > Hey Brian
> > >
> > > TLDR; are you OK with me moving forward with the rework of
> > > mesa3d.org?
> > >
> > > As you hopefully are aware of, I've been working on a new website
> > > for
> > > mesa3d.org, split into a "marketing"-frontpage and a documentation
> > > page.
> > >
> > > You can read more about the structure and details here if you
> > > haven't
> > > already:
> > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/4630
> > >
> > > That MR only deals with the marketing website, so I think it's time
> > > to
> > > talk more about the main website. What I currently have is located
> > > here:
> > >
> > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/kusma/kusma.pages.freedesktop.org/
> > >
> > > This builds on CI and currently gets served here:
> > >
> > > https://kusma.pages.freedesktop.org/
> > >
> > >
> > > Since last time I published any details about this, I've:
> > > 1. Switched the static-site-generator from Jekyll to Hugo. This
> > > lead to
> > > a build-time decrease from about two minutes to about 200ms on my
> > > machine. This makes iteration times a lot more bearable.
> > > 2. Back-paddled on moving some pages. I think we can hold off on
> > > moving
> > > pages to the website until the initial work lands.
> > > 3. Gotten approval from the Khronos marketing team about the usage
> > > of
> > > their logos / trademarks. They had some minor requests for changes,
> > > which has been taken into account.
> > >
> > > The news articles and redirects for URL compatibility is converted
> > > from
> > > a branch in my Mesa fork, here:
> > >
> > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/kusma/mesa/-/tree/docs-convert-news-hugo
> > >
> > > So, after a long introduction (sorry if a lot of this is stuff you
> > > already know), what I really want is for you Brian, as the project
> > > originator and listed webmaster, to say how you feel about all of
> > > this.
> > >
> > > If you're happy to move forward with this, I will start the
> > > technical
> > > discussions with the FDO admins and other people who might need to
> > > be
> > > involved in setting this up for production.
> > >
> > >
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