Let's fix the website

[dann frazier]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:47:36PM -0500, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> I get sad everytime I have to point someone to juju.ubuntu.com and
> they are exposed to the glory of a wiki.
> 
> I was lamenting to Jono about this and he reminded me that
> developer.ubuntu.com has some nice features, is really easy to use,
> and to Just Try It(tm). So thanks to David Planella and Michael Hall,
> here's a prototype of what I think the Juju website should be, freshly
> deployed on Canonistack:
> 
> http://91.189.93.108/
> 
> This morning Marco Ceppi and I mangled some of the existing content
> from juju.u.c and formed it into the mold. Here's what I envision:
> 
> - The Resources tab is mostly empty right now. On developer.u.c the IS
> guys made it so the Ubuntu Packaging Guide (which is a generated
> Sphinx document) is integrated into WordPress. So ideally you'd see
> the same docs we have today, but displayed in an integrated fashion.
> 
> - The link to the charm store is jarring, as charmworld has a totally
> different style; there could be better integration here.
> 
> - The Getting Started links should point to the specific set up page
> for each provider, again, instead of having another place for this,
> I'd love to just reuse the sphinx docs.
> 
> - This is all based on lp:ubuntudeveloperportal, my idea is if the
> community feels this is the way to go, we'd push this branch to
> lp:jujuwebsite or something, and then we replicate the exact workflow,
> that is when you want to make a change you branch it, update, push,
> and then IS can deploy right from the branch.
> 
> - For a real deployment we'd need the openid plugin so ~charmers can
> update the wordpress content, and I'd like to syndicate juju posts
> like we used to do on cloud.ubuntu.com.
> 
> So what do you all think? I'm probably going to invest the rest of the
> day working on updating this, I am reasonably confident that even in
> it's half-finished form it's way better than what we have now.
> 
> Thoughts/concerns/criticisms?

+1; really like the updated getting started content/visibility