Keeping landing-page alive

kmuehlbauer commented 3 years ago

Citing from a comment by @jfgui https://github.com/openradar/openradar-landing-page/pull/11#issuecomment-871920721:

It would be good if we keep the news section more active by putting there announcements of new releases, presentations, etc. The point is to keep the page up in the Google search so that people interested in open weather radar has an easy to find landing place and they are given a view as broad as possible of what it is in offer.

Another thing we could add is a page where publications are listed.

Do you think we can find a less cumbersome process than a pull request to add news for example?

I've thought about that too, but without using GitHub infrastructure this would be much more complicated. I've described the process to add news in the wiki https://github.com/openradar/openradar-landing-page/wiki/dev.-News. If we think, that creating a pull request is too much of a problem, we could think about using GitHub issues for that.

The idea is:

Create a NEWS issue template according to the details in the wiki above.
Implement a GitHub actions workflow, which creates a news entry from that filled template and either pushes directly to main branch or creates a pull request.
To trigger the workflow an openradar community member would need to add a certain label (eg. news-approved) to the issue.
The user who wants to add a news entry just has to create an issue from said template and a community member would have to add the said label to finalize this.

I'm not sure, if we can circumvent pull requests (pushing directly from an issue workflow). If not, we could use the [openradar-bot(https://github.com/openradar-bot)] to fork and pull request the news entry.

Thoughts or other ideas?

kmuehlbauer commented 2 years ago

Currently pelican is moving plugins to a new place, changing registering of plugins etc. This leads to some issues with the current builds. I've disabled some of the plugins, to get it building again.

This needs revisiting.

kmuehlbauer commented 2 years ago

@mgrover1 did great efforts to bring the openradarscience landing page to the new ages. Thanks a bunch! This looks very nice and we can work from that updating the different package sites.

https://mgrover.dev/open-radar-test/

We would need to decide, how to incorporate this. Currently we have a repo (this very repo) for the sources and a repo for the actual html representation (https://github.com/openradar/openradar.github.io). I'd suggest to archive this very repo and move everathing to https://github.com/openradar/openradar.github.io.

As there is some bot-magic involved we need to be careful bringing everything into place. @mgrover1 let's talk this though tomorrow.

kmuehlbauer commented 2 years ago

Thanks @mgrover1, great job.

The page is now powered by new infrastructure. Issue resolved.

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