Just wanted to give you a quick update on the new website: it's coming along nicely, I have been able to port over most of our existing documentation to Hugo Markdown without significant issues.
The plan for rollout is as follows:
1. Once I've finalized the content of the hugo site, I'll ask Eclipse webmaster to help us set up hosting at
rdf4j.eclipse.org (this currently redirects to
rdf4j.org but we'll repurpose it for a running the two sites in parallel while we test things). The idea is that on our end we just have a Jenkins job that deploys the site, and all hosting management is handled by the webmaster team.
2. I'll also ask them to set up a https certificate.
Part of testing is also that I want to see that we can do redirects from old deep links as much as possible. The documentation has been restructured a little bit so it won't be possible 100%, but I'd like some of the obvious entry points to be covered by a smart redirect, at least.
Also, one editorial thing: I'm playing with the capitalization of the project name, we have not been very consistent with that in the past I feel. I'm currently in favor of the following defaults:
- "Eclipse rdf4j" (lowercase for rdf4j to align with the logo).
- "rdf4j"
- "rdf4j server" / "rdf4j workbench" / "rdf4j console"
- When starting a sentence with the short name, capitalize: "Rdf4j is a ...."
This is just really nitpicky stuff but I think it looks more pleasant and more recognizable than all caps "RDF4J".
Ideally, I'd like the new website to be live somewhere in the first week of May.
I'll be offline for a few days for Easter holidays. So a slightly early Happy Easter everyone!
Cheers,
Jeen
