[Mesa-dev] New Mesa3D.org website proposal

[Erik Faye-Lund]

On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 11:03 -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> On 05/07/2020 04:33 AM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> > Hey Brian
> > 
> > TLDR; are you OK with me moving forward with the rework of
> > mesa3d.org?
> 
> Yes...

Awesome, thanks!

> > 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://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.freedesktop.org%2Fmesa%2Fmesa%2F-%2Fmerge_requests%2F4630&data=02%7C01%7Cbrianp%40vmware.com%7C6998774738b349bcb79108d7f2720ca6%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637244443970864799&sdata=1Z%2B3KKoVjNLHRvIf2VbK7KHSM4kh10fZQ1zdfPsguA0%3D&reserved=0
> > 
> > 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://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.freedesktop.org%2Fkusma%2Fkusma.pages.freedesktop.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cbrianp%40vmware.com%7C6998774738b349bcb79108d7f2720ca6%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637244443970864799&sdata=ttMgZuWT%2Bgg19H9qx1XmUQgl%2FO%2FlFF3vZuGkKxQGC9g%3D&reserved=0
> > 
> > This builds on CI and currently gets served here:
> > 
> > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkusma.pages.freedesktop.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cbrianp%40vmware.com%7C6998774738b349bcb79108d7f2720ca6%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637244443970864799&sdata=258fUaF1DrIioGS1VTROkJznMNjI3xhxmbdl9RWyJZU%3D&reserved=0
> 
> It seems like only the front page is served at the moment.  Is it 
> possible to get a look at the rest?  The front page looks nice.
> 

Yeah, we need to set up docs.mesa3d.org first. I haven't bothered
setting up the temporary URLs yet, but my current preview is hosted
here:

https://kusma.pages.freedesktop.org/mesa/

It's a plain readthedocs-themed Sphinx site, which is a reasonably
popular way of serving docs.

This is all cooking here right now:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/4630

> > 
> > 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://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.freedesktop.org%2Fkusma%2Fmesa%2F-%2Ftree%2Fdocs-convert-news-hugo&data=02%7C01%7Cbrianp%40vmware.com%7C6998774738b349bcb79108d7f2720ca6%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637244443970864799&sdata=rmXuKgyMFAZqJD4ij%2F8mR1EvA4HvFYwnR5Gd%2BCdgJFM%3D&reserved=0
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Please remove me as the webmaster.  I still occasionally get emails
> from 
> that.  Let readers know how to submit changes/edits.
> 

OK, will do!

> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, go ahead.  Sorry for not monitoring this work.  I basically
> have 
> zero time for Mesa nowadays.

That's fine, and thank you for your blessing!