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authorR. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com>2009-03-17 21:49:55 -0700
committerR. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com>2009-03-17 21:49:55 -0700
commit729daf94f3122605f3ba0887442016b11805affd (patch)
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parent7ada3309fcd65b387696e0e5fa6028950f80b52e (diff)
downloadpython-cheetah-729daf94f3122605f3ba0887442016b11805affd.tar.gz
Update the _SiteTemplate to reflect the recent Cheetah Community Edition changes
The documentation portion of the site is still not up to date, the generated HTML however will be dumped into the gh-pages branch for the GitHub site. Signed-off-by: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'www')
-rw-r--r--www/_SiteTemplate.tmpl48
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/www/_SiteTemplate.tmpl b/www/_SiteTemplate.tmpl
index 4991c17..fe4818a 100644
--- a/www/_SiteTemplate.tmpl
+++ b/www/_SiteTemplate.tmpl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
####################
## Class attributes:
#attr navBarSep = '<span class="navBarSep">|</span>'
-#attr title = 'Cheetah - The Python-Powered Template Engine'
+#attr title = 'Cheetah Community Engine - The Python-Powered Template Engine'
#attr htmlExt = '.html'
#attr pageId = 'index'
## $apos used to avoid a syntax highlight issue in Emacs:
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
class="bannerImg" src="images/cheetah-face-black-medium.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<a href="index$htmlExt"><img class="bannerText" src="images/banner_text.gif"
- alt="Cheetah: The Python-Powered Template Engine" /></a>
+ alt="Cheetah Community Edition: The Python-Powered Template Engine" /></a>
</div>
#end block banner
<div class="pageOuterWrapper" align="center">
@@ -107,13 +107,21 @@
<img class="" src="images/cheetah-homepage-title.gif" alt="" />
</div>
- <p>Cheetah is an <a href="http://opensource.org/">open source</a>
+ <p>Cheetah Community Edition is a community supported release of the
+ Cheetah template engine and code generation tool,
template engine and code generation tool, written in <a
href="http://python.org/">Python</a>. It can be used standalone
or combined with other tools and frameworks. Web development is its
principle use, but Cheetah is very flexible and is also being used to
generate C++ game code, Java, sql, form emails and even Python code.</p>
+ <p>The reasons behind the Community Edition is to maintain active development
+ outside the mostly-stale <a href="http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=28961">Cheetah CVS tree</a>.
+ Cheetah CE is not intended on diverging from the main goals of the original releases
+ of Cheetah, stability, speed and ease of use, but is to serve as a means of reinvigorating
+ the Cheetah community with <strong>monthly</strong> releases with patches provided by the
+ community as they're needed.
+
<p>Cheetah has a large and active user community. Products built with
Cheetah are <a href="whouses$htmlExt">used by many of the Fortune
500</a>. One prominent new user is <a
@@ -126,7 +134,7 @@
<div class="homePageUtilLinks">
<a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cheetahtemplate-discuss"
>Mailing List</a>$sep<a href="docs/CHANGES">Changes</a>$sep<a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=28961">CVS</a>
+ href="http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tree/master">Git</a>
</div>
<div class="homePageQuotes">$shortPraiseSection</div>
@@ -138,13 +146,13 @@
<div class="homePageDownloadBar">
<div class="homePageDownloadBarInner">
<b>Download</b> <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28961">Cheetah 2.0.1</a>
- (released on November 16, 2007: minor bug fix).
+ href="http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.1.0">Cheetah CE v2.1.0</a>
+ (released on March 16, 2009: collection of bugfixes/improvements).
</div>
</div>
##################################################
- <p><b>Cheetah</b>:</p>
+ <p><b>Cheetah Community Edition</b>:</p>
<ul class="topLevel">
<li><b>is supported by every major Python web framework</b>.</li>
@@ -253,7 +261,9 @@
<p>Cheetah was created by Tavis Rudd, a freelance programmer and designer, with
contributions from many open source volunteers. Its documentation is edited by
-Mike Orr, who also wrote its command line tool.</p>
+Mike Orr, who also wrote its command line tool. The Community Edition of Cheetah
+is being maintained by R. Tyler Ballance of Slide, Inc, but is contributed to by
+the members of the Cheetah community.</p>
<p>We$(apos)d like to thank the following people for contributing valuable
advice, encouragement, code and bug reports: </p>
@@ -275,6 +285,7 @@ advice, encouragement, code and bug reports: </p>
Brian Bird
Chad Walstrom
Chris Murphy
+ Christoph Zwerschke
Christophe Eymard
Chuck Esterbrook
Chui Tey
@@ -286,11 +297,15 @@ advice, encouragement, code and bug reports: </p>
Donnie Hale
Doug Wyatt
Edmund Lian
+ Eric Huss
Erik Forsberg
+ Erwin Ambrosch
+ Evan Klitzke
Federico Di Gregorio
Franz Geiger
Geir Magnusson
Geoff Talvola
+ Graham Dennis
Graham Dumpleton
Greg Czajkowski
Hamish Lawson
@@ -335,8 +350,10 @@ advice, encouragement, code and bug reports: </p>
Robert Cowham
Robert Kuzelj
Rodrigo B. de Oliveira
+ R. Tyler Ballance
Scott Sanders
Sasa Zivkov
+ Satoru Satoh
Shannon -jj Behrens
Stephan Diehl
Stephane Bortzmeyer
@@ -489,18 +506,15 @@ href="http://www.webwareforpython.org/">Webware for Python</a> email list.</p>
#def downloadPageContents
<p>The most <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28961">recent
- stable release</a> was 2.0.1 on November 16th, 2007. Cheetah has been <b>stable,
+ href="http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.1.0">recent stable release</a>
+ was Cheetah Community Edition v2.1.0, was released on March 16th, 2009.
+ The latest Cheetah "official" release was 2.0.1 on November 16th, 2007. Cheetah has been <b>stable,
production quality, post-beta code since 2001</b>. All new releases since then
(40+) have been almost <b>100% backwards compatible</b>. The 2.0 code itself
has production ready since early 2006.</p>
<p>Here$(apos)s the documentation on <a
- href="http://cheetahtemplate.org/docs/CHANGES">recent changes</a>.</p>
-
- <p>You can also get the current unreleased development version of Cheetah from
- our <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=28961">CVS
- repository</a>.</p>
+ href="CHANGES">recent changes</a>.</p>
<p>Cheetah is included in FreeBSD and most major Linux distributions:
Gentoo, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu among others.</p>
@@ -585,7 +599,9 @@ href="http://www.webwareforpython.org/">Webware for Python</a> email list.</p>
<a href="http://www.ironport.com/products/">IronPort Systems</a>, which are
used by the largest corporations and ISPs in the world. IronPort$(apos)s products
contain over a million lines of Python and use Cheetah plus <a
- href="http://aquarium.sf.net">Aquarium</a> for their user interfaces.</li>
+ href="http://aquarium.sf.net">Aquarium</a> for their user interfaces. Other
+ major startup users of Cheetah include companies like <a href="http://youtube.com">YouTube</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.yelp.com">Yelp</a> and <a href="http://www.slide.com">Slide</a>.</li>
<li>A prominent example of government use is <a
href="http://www.incidentnews.gov/">Incident News</a>, which provides news,