[Numpy-discussion] Helping with website improvements

[Sebastian Berg]

On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 07:06 -0600, Charles R Harris wrote:
> Hi Dashamir,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 4:49 PM Dashamir Hoxha <dashohoxha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > With respect to this call for contributions: 
> > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/13988/files
> > I would like to help with improving the website of numpy (and maybe
> > scipy as well).
> > I have also applied for the Google Season of Docs 2019, and if
> > accepted, I will be starting by the beginning of August.
> > 
> > The improvements that I would like to make include:
> > - Making the website responsive (so that it looks nice on small
> > screens as well). There are responsive themes for sphinx and I may
> > use one of them.
> > - Improving the main page (or the landing page) so that it looks a
> > bit more modern and attractive.
> > - Reorganizing the structure of the information on the website, so
> > that people from different backgrounds (students, professionals,
> > etc.) can find more easily the relevant information that they are
> > looking for. Including references to the external tutorials or
> > courses about NumPy/SciPy.
> > 
> > Other tentative improvements may be these:
> > - Reorganize the docs so that each major release has its own
> > version of docs. Major releases are those that may introduce new
> > features, or in general, changes in the API (minor releases are the
> > maintenance releases, which fix bugs, or make small changes, for
> > example to improve the efficiency, but do not change the API). For
> > example major releases may be v1.15, v1.16, v1.17 (however I am not
> > sure about this).
> > - Reorganize the docs so that the core API functionality is shown
> > more prominently than the rest, and so that functions that may be
> > deprecated in the future can be marked so (in order to discourage
> > users from using them) and alternative solutions are suggested
> > instead of them, etc.
> > - Allow the users to add comments for each function or package.
> > These may be usage examples for the benefit of other users, or
> > pitfall alerts, or even bug reports. Reporting bugs on GitHub is
> > better of course, but this may be a bit easier for the users.
> > 
> > Since these are not incremental changes, if may be better if I work
> > on a fork of the website repository, until they are finished and
> > the new website is ready.
> > 
> > 
> 
> That sounds interesting and ambitious. I'll let others offer
> suggestions, we might want to host the site at a different provider
> which will offer easier access to developers. The repo is at at  
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy.org. There is also a scipy.org website
> that could also use some work.
> 


Indeed, great to see interest, it sounds very nice! I believe you are
already in contact with Ralf directly (just in case someone wonders if
there might be little immediate followup on the mailing list).

Best,

Sebastian


> Chuck
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