Rational

There is a growing sense in the community that the Camel Web site needs some updating. The precipitating e-mail cited a few key areas to look at:

1. a new logo
2. refreshed look and feel for the site
3. clearer navigation
4. clearer organization of the documentation

In addition the idea of attempting to align the branding of Camel with ServiceMix, CXF, ActiveMQ, and Karaf was floated. The idea being that the projects are closely aligned and frequently used together.

A final consideration is that the Apache Infrastructure group is beginning the process of deprecating Confluence due to a lack of support for the static HTML export plug-in. They have outlined plans to have all projects host their Web sites from SVN. The infrastructure group is implementing a CMS system that is currently in use for the main Apache site. However, they are willing to support any tool chain that produces HTML for publication from SVN.

Recently the board produced a set of guidelines that all projects must implement early next year regarding branding and Web sites.

Proposed Solutions

Issues