[pypy-dev] Improving the pypy website (and benchmarks)

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

Hi.

First of all, thanks a lot for your interest. In general, my ideas are very
much in line with what you said. I'll try to answer specific questions
one by one.

> [snip]
> current http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/index.html site for
> developers and develop a new www.pypy.org site, or improve the current one.

I would go for www.pypy.org website, dedicated for potential users
and to keep current website under current address for potential developers.

> The tasks to perform would be:
> - Agree on a new website or keeping and improving the current one
> - Choose a CMS (or hand-code or whatever) to craft the website
> - Define a navigation menu with key areas (about, download, news,
> roadmap, benchmarks, developement...)
> - Visual design
> - Code ;.)

I would very much like to discuss this part in details with you.
If you can make it to pypy sprint, would be awesome, if not,
we sh

> I can help with some (or all) of these tasks.
> Another matter are benchmarks. Because it is the project's most visible
> "feature" or "result", it would be great to publish a set of benchmarks so
> that python users can keep track of performance across different versions
> (cpython 2.6 vs pypy1.1, Jython, etc...). That way they can keep track of
> performance improvements as well as decide when it becomes attractive for
> them to make the switch from cpython. It would be the best advertisement for
> the project. The best case would be if you internally perform performance
> test to prevent performance regression on new releases, and that same data
> could be also be automatically published on the web, in the dev pages
> during development, and .in the "public" pages for final releases.
> So the tasks here would be:
> - Define a set of standard benchmarks that will serve as performance tests
> for every new release (including alphas and betas)
> - Create a script that gathers all the data for developers to analyse and
> spot performance regressions and bugs AND outputs the data in such a way
> that it can be automatically published on the website (so no extra
> maintenance workload)
> - Code the web page that beautifully shows the data in a suitable format
> (tables, graphs)
> I have recently done some work on dynamic javascript (or python) plotting,
> so I can take care of the last part relatively easily. I could also help
> with the second task.
> So I leave it there for you to discuss. What do you think of it all?
> Cheers,
> Miquel
>
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