Tour (new design)

• home page
  • consists of dynamic content tiles
  • can be to anything on the site, pages or blog posts
  • featured post, twitter section will show tweets
  • administration - easy as drag and drop to customize the homepage
• blog
  • archive view is in the same tiled format all blog posts
  • easy to find articles to read
  • lot of placeholder images, category based, going forward include cover images
• blog - single
  • dedicated single page
  • content inside the posts are markdown
  • a few extensions to markdown lingo (notes, syntax highlighting sections)
  • navigation
• nightly page
  • dynamically updating like the previous nightly page
• status page
  • color coded
  • filterable
  • click to expand and show details
• other static pages
  • ported content from the original site, moved to markdown
  • there is revision tracking in WordPress, easy to use
  • policy documents, style guide, commit review policy, etc.
• entire site
  • responsive! readable on different devices / widths
  • if you notice any issues let us know soon
  • markdown authoring

Questions

• Markdown variant?
  • Some minor extensions, there is a help sheet in the editor
  • You can just write HTML
• Anyone wanted to make a post on the WebKit blog but hasn't?
  • Yes, one person.
  • This is available to any WebKit contributors.
• WordPress in SVN questions
  • would like to not keep core checked in
  • do want to keep static page content checked in and reviewable changes
• Who have accounts?
  • Most Apple folks
  • Ping us and we can get you access.
  • New WordPress login schemes, not the macosforge/old site
  • Potential to tie accounts to SVN
• OpenGraph support?
  • Haven't considered that.
  • We can hook plugins in to generate whatever data we need.
• Should we add social share buttons?
  • Lots of people said they dislike them.
• When will it be posted?
  • Would like to try launching next week.
  • Would be difficult to stage it.

Comments

• Reporting Bugs page
  • would also be nice for other platforms => bugs.webkit.org
  • make less Mac / Apple / Safari specific
  • "Check your WebKit Version" - provide a way for each port
  • future idea to create bugs through this site to reduce bugzilla overhead for developers
    • response: we should try that after improving bugzilla itself
• Nightly Page
  • add other port links to the nightly (Igalia folks say they are close)
  • missing "what is a nightly? who should download it?" - needs a bit more explanation
  • other browsers have similiar (Firefox, Chrome)
• Static Pages
  • needs to be filled out.
  • want to pull out good data from the wiki
  • have a better home for that content on the blog
• Testing Pages
  • What is this page about? Contributing? Or for developers?
  • Can be multiple audiences. The homepage does this.
  • Like that structure, 2 audiences (Web Developers, Contributors)
  • Web Developers => Test new WebKit Features
  • Contributors => Testing contributions, how contributors test
  • Used to have a page / document about "How to create good bugs"
  • We have a good system for contributing patches, but not for other contributions (tests, bot maintenance)
• Video Content for Linux Ports
  • mp4 content on the old blog
  • that is difficult for linux ports
  • would be great to have less encumbered format, preferred WebM; doesn't have to be though
  • even if it has to be "pass the video off to us so we can transcode; that would be fine"
  • is there some simple way someone can convert all our videos right now?
    • upload videos to youtube / vimeo?
• Discussion / Post Feedback
  • link to Twitter handles at the end
  • seems weird, comments
  • comment system has spam filters
  • show tweets with this URL