accelerate solidproject.org updates' publishing

[mariadimou]

Search terms you've used
https://solidproject.org/ navigation

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There are errors on pages like https://solidproject.org/events and https://github.com/solid/solidproject.org/blob/staging/solid-labs.md as well as https://solidproject.org/press (the 2020-06-04 event is presented as "Upcoming" still today). It is impossible to promote the project's web site when it looks like this.

Describe the solution you'd like
The editors in the process need to be notified or keep an eye and be ready to act.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Assign this 'github helpdesk' task to a student, in exchange for a good comment in his/her LinkedIn profile for good professional proactiveness. :-)

Additional context
I need good quality data on the solidproject site for https://gitter.im/cern-solid/community#
Thank you very much!

[Mitzi-Laszlo]

Thank you @mariadimou - I'll make sure to bring this up in the weekly Solid Team meeting today and try and find a more efficient website editing and publishing process.

[csarven]

Does the process need to indicate a time limit for each step: editing, merging, .. deploying changes on website?

What happens if we go over?

As far as I'm aware, all team members are generally notified about the GitHub activities; issues, PRs.

While the Editors approved recent PRs like:

• Update solid-labs.md solidproject.org#280
• Fix typo solidproject.org#279

the current process indicates that the Creators should be approving similar PRs, and need not assign them to Editors:

Spelling, grammar, broken links, and other minor changes do not need to be approved by the Solid Director and can be updated or approved directly in staging by the Creators. Changes larger than that, but that do not significantly alter the website content (such as referencing community activity outside of the website) also do not need to be approved by the Solid Director in order to be applied to staging, as long as they have been approved by one of the Editors.

[Vinnl]

Yep, I think Creators can ensure that events are moved from "Upcoming" to "Past" by themselves under the current process; the problem is that there is nobody assigned to actually keep track of when an event has happened to make sure the page is up-to-date.

So there are three possible solutions, in order of the amount of work it would take:

• Don't split the lists between upcoming and past events, but simply use a single list sorted by date in descending order.
• Have someone take responsibility of keeping such pages up-to-date.
• Find or write a CMS that can automatically do that.

[Mitzi-Laszlo]

TL;DR the website process is too bureaucratic, less is more.

Previously, rather than having staging/master and editorial review the Creators were trusted with keeping track of keeping the website up to date as long as it was in line with @timbl quotes and reviewed technical content. If the website content was not in line with reviewed technical content @timbl review was needed for website changes.

What is adding complication is now that so many people are involved in website updates and general Solid communication is that a lot of tailored explanation is needed to be repeated multiple times at each step which is adding a lot of overhead for everyone and slowing things down.

The Editors already have a lot on their plate with specification editing, and adding website reviews seems to be an additional distracting burden that is hard for them to keep up with on time.

Rather than more process and steps with more people, a simplified process with fewer people responsible for website changes that trusted non-editors more would speed things up.

[mariadimou]

Dear all,
thank you for your comments. I don't know what clarification to add. I just can't believe that the update of the wrong information on page https://solidproject.org/events is not yet fixed! I am trying with 3 different browsers to be sure that the issue is not with my cache. The commit was done last Tuesday.

This is the public image of the project. If it contains badly formatted and wrong info, I can't continue my persuasion work within CERN. Such changes have to be done within seconds. Who, when, what is waiting to actually merge this to master?
Same about my change about the CERN-Solid description in "labs". What, who, when will have a page solidproject.org/solid-labs published with the correct content? NB! this contains the correct content.
These are just examples. Please review the process.
Thank you for your attention
Maria