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Bug 572843

Summary: [April 2021] Newsletter Coding Support
Product: Community Reporter: Jacob Harris <jacob.harris>
Component: WebsiteAssignee: Eric Poirier <eric.poirier>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: chris.guindon, jacob.harris
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X   
See Also: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/community/+/179848
https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/home/+/179849
https://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/community.git/commit/?id=13bd319c4db4c3bf5127572b956b130b9ceafaa9
https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/community/+/180009
https://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/community.git/commit/?id=cb2f9a04abb520a14767d028cdca9189af32a867
https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/community/+/180123
https://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/community.git/commit/?id=e5f785e0f602ac5da49d8dd2e82f27fe20b81824
https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/community/+/180238
https://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/community.git/commit/?id=d15b39123d306d14a192ee7e27e66c6a2f3bd8b7
https://git.eclipse.org/c/www.eclipse.org/home.git/commit/?id=8bec9d34de3693c80dfd682fc27d48f22a6b4872
Whiteboard:
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Description Flags
Spotlight Article #2
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Committer Profile
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Committer Profile Image
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Spotlight 2 Image - Brian King
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Spotlight Article #3
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Spotlight 3 - Author Image Colin Grant
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Spotlight 3 Image Kenneth Marut
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Spotlight Article #1
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Spotlight 1 Image
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Previous Newsletter Image
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Homepage Committer/Project content
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Featured Project logo (For eclipse.org homepage, not newsletter)
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Spotlight Article #1 (new links)
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highlighting-changes-ascii.gif Compressed
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highlighting-changes-ascii (AVIF)
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April Community Updates
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About the Author - Spotlight 2
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Spotlight 3 - Figure 2
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Spotlight 3 - Figure 3
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Spotlight 3 - Figure 4
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Spotlight 3 - Figure 5
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intro paragraph needs space none

Description Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-14 08:54:06 EDT
Created attachment 286099 [details]
Spotlight Article #2

April Newsletter

Title: TBD

Planned launch date: April 27

3 articles to post: 
- Spotlight article 1 - Jumpstart Desktop IDE Development With Eclipse Theia Blueprint - Maximilian Koegel 
- Spotlight article 2 - Discover the Embedded Cloud DevTools Special Interest Group - Brian King
- Spotlight article 3 - Seven Reasons to Check Out the New Eclipse Theia Memory Inspector - Colin Grant and Kenneth Marut


- Committer Profile - Philip Langer
- News 
- Featured Project: Eclipse SUMO
Comment 1 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-16 11:55:22 EDT
Created attachment 286113 [details]
Committer Profile
Comment 2 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-16 14:13:15 EDT
Created attachment 286114 [details]
Committer Profile Image
Comment 3 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-16 14:13:49 EDT
Created attachment 286115 [details]
Spotlight 2 Image - Brian King
Comment 4 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-22 11:09:42 EDT
Created attachment 286196 [details]
Spotlight Article #3

Title: Six Reasons to Check Out the New Eclipse Theia Memory Inspector

There are also 2 GIFs to add to the text 
[the place they should be added is marked with square brackets]
Comment 5 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-22 11:10:33 EDT
GIFS for Memory Inspector article (Spotlight 3) 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ulnwfa82lcvwko/AACB28vOYHBryvRuyCKa_mjva?dl=0
Comment 6 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-22 14:07:30 EDT
Created attachment 286198 [details]
Spotlight 3 - Author Image Colin Grant

Colin Grant Author Photo (Spotlight 3)
Comment 7 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-22 14:09:12 EDT
Created attachment 286199 [details]
Spotlight 3 Image Kenneth Marut

Kenneth Marut Author Photo (Spotlight 3)
Comment 8 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-22 14:10:47 EDT
Created attachment 286200 [details]
Spotlight Article #1

Spotlight Article 1 - Jumpstart IDE and Tool Development With Eclipse Theia Blueprint
Comment 9 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-22 14:11:58 EDT
GIF for Spotlight 1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/47atftrwygid9s3/TheiaBlueprintFigure2.gif?dl=0
Comment 10 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-22 14:16:41 EDT
Created attachment 286201 [details]
Spotlight 1 Image

Maximillian Koegel Author Photo
Comment 11 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-22 14:20:39 EDT
Created attachment 286202 [details]
Previous Newsletter Image
Comment 12 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-23 15:19:38 EDT
Created attachment 286221 [details]
Homepage Committer/Project content
Comment 13 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-23 15:20:22 EDT
Created attachment 286222 [details]
Featured Project logo (For eclipse.org homepage, not newsletter)

Eclipse SUMO (Featured Project) logo
Comment 14 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-23 17:00:11 EDT
Created attachment 286223 [details]
Spotlight Article #1 (new links)

The author requested a few minor changes to Spotlight 1. I added them here
Comment 15 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-23 17:00:41 EDT
The new target publish date is Thursday April 29
Comment 16 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-26 08:48:38 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #15)
> The new target publish date is Thursday April 29

Ok thanks!
Comment 17 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-26 11:01:45 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #5)
> GIFS for Memory Inspector article (Spotlight 3) 
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ulnwfa82lcvwko/AACB28vOYHBryvRuyCKa_mjva?dl=0

Is there a way we can ask them to reduce the size of these gif files?

These are the file's current size:

highlighting-changes-ascii.gif - 4.3mb
multi-view.gif - 4.8mb

Thanks
Comment 18 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-26 11:34:24 EDT
Created attachment 286237 [details]
highlighting-changes-ascii.gif Compressed

I compressed one of them to 2.6 MB. Would that work?
Comment 19 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-04-26 13:54:29 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/community/+/179848
Comment 20 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-04-26 14:01:23 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/home/+/179849
Comment 21 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-26 14:12:29 EDT
I added what I have so far on staging:

https://staging.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/
https://staging.eclipse.org/home

I think the only things we are missing are:

Newsletter title
News content

Let me know if there's anything else missing and if you'd like to make any changes to what is currently on staging.

Thanks.
Comment 22 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-26 15:31:35 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #18)
> Created attachment 286237 [details]
> highlighting-changes-ascii.gif Compressed
> 
> I compressed one of them to 2.6 MB. Would that work?

@Chris, 2mb is still pretty large and we have 2 of them. Are you ok if we put those files on 1 article or are the files still too large?

Thanks.
Comment 23 Christopher Guindon CLA 2021-04-26 16:21:53 EDT
(In reply to Eric Poirier from comment #22)
> (In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #18)
> > Created attachment 286237 [details]
> > highlighting-changes-ascii.gif Compressed
> > 
> > I compressed one of them to 2.6 MB. Would that work?
> 
> @Chris, 2mb is still pretty large and we have 2 of them. Are you ok if we
> put those files on 1 article or are the files still too large?
> 
> Thanks.

I don't think we can shrink that gif again without really losing quality.

Did we consider using a different format than a gif?
https://ezgif.com/help/alternative-animated-image-formats

Not sure about browser compatibility but AVIF AV1 Image File Format looks promising with an important reduction in file sizes.
Comment 24 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-27 09:52:20 EDT
Created attachment 286247 [details]
highlighting-changes-ascii (AVIF)

I used the website you posted here to create a AVIF. I couldn't play it on my computer though so I'm not sure how it turned out
Comment 25 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-27 11:29:37 EDT
Created attachment 286248 [details]
April Community Updates

Here is the community updates article.

I asked Brian for an about the author section for his article, and will try to get more high-res images from the authors for Spotlight article 2, since they are displaying pretty small and blurry.

Also, for the about the author section of Spotlight 2, can we make the heading "About the Authors" and have two sepeate lines for each author, corresponding to their photos?

- Colin Grant is a web technologies developer at Ericsson and a committer to the Eclipse Theia project.
- Kenneth Marut is a web technologies developer at Ericsson and a committer to the Eclipse Theia project.
Comment 26 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-27 13:18:32 EDT
Correction to my comment above: We're going to try to get better images for Spotlight article 3, not 2
Comment 27 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-27 13:23:03 EDT
Created attachment 286250 [details]
About the Author - Spotlight 2
Comment 28 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-27 16:24:42 EDT
Created attachment 286252 [details]
Spotlight 3 - Figure 2
Comment 29 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-27 16:25:24 EDT
Created attachment 286253 [details]
Spotlight 3 - Figure 3
Comment 30 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-27 16:25:52 EDT
Created attachment 286254 [details]
Spotlight 3 - Figure 4
Comment 31 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-27 16:26:17 EDT
Created attachment 286255 [details]
Spotlight 3 - Figure 5
Comment 32 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-28 08:19:10 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #24)
> Created attachment 286247 [details]
> highlighting-changes-ascii (AVIF)
> 
> I used the website you posted here to create a AVIF. I couldn't play it on
> my computer though so I'm not sure how it turned out

The AVIF file seems to be working well on Chrome but not on Firefox. We will have to use the gif files in order to support all browsers.
Comment 33 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-28 08:49:32 EDT
Hi Jacob,

I updated the article 3 on staging and the Community news page.

https://staging.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2021/april/3.php
https://staging.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2021/april/5.php

Now I think all that is missing is the Newsletter Title.
Comment 34 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-28 12:26:56 EDT
Thanks! We're just waiting for some final revisions to be finished and then I'll post the Mailchimp version and title. 

Can you add Brian's "About the Author" to Spotlight 2 as well?
Comment 35 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-28 13:56:44 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #34)
> Thanks! We're just waiting for some final revisions to be finished and then
> I'll post the Mailchimp version and title. 
> 
> Can you add Brian's "About the Author" to Spotlight 2 as well?

I don't see Brian's Description in the comments. Can you point me to the Comment number?

Thanks.
Comment 36 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-28 14:02:55 EDT
Comment 27
Comment 37 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-28 14:12:49 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #36)
> Comment 27

Thanks.

I added the description to staging.
Comment 38 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-29 08:36:28 EDT
Thanks Eric. Here is the mailchimp link:

https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?e=[UNIQID]&u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&id=7e7345d1b1

Newsletter title: Open Source Cloud Development Comes of Age
Comment 39 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-29 08:57:29 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #38)
> Thanks Eric. Here is the mailchimp link:
> 
> https://us6.campaign-archive.com/
> ?e=[UNIQID]&u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&id=7e7345d1b1
> 
> Newsletter title: Open Source Cloud Development Comes of Age

Staging has been updated.

https://staging.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/

I'll wait for your +1 to push to production.

Thanks.
Comment 40 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-29 09:51:07 EDT
Created attachment 286266 [details]
intro paragraph needs space

Looks great. One request from Clark is to add an extra line of space between the second intro paragraph and the list of bullet points (see image attached)

Other than that, I think we're good.
Comment 41 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-29 09:57:59 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #40)
> Created attachment 286266 [details]
> intro paragraph needs space
> 
> Looks great. One request from Clark is to add an extra line of space between
> the second intro paragraph and the list of bullet points (see image attached)
> 
> Other than that, I think we're good.

I updated staging with this update.

The newsletter is now going for review, I'll let you know once its on production.
Comment 43 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-29 10:55:13 EDT
The April newsletter is now on production.

https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/

Let me know if there's anything else.

Thanks!
Comment 44 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-29 14:37:24 EDT
A few links that should be changed:

- The "Read More" button for Article 3 (Six Reasons...) should be https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2021/april/3.php

- Under Community Updates, the image for Open VSX (iPad thumbnail) should be https://outreach.eclipse.foundation/openvsx

- Under Upcoming Virtual Events, the image for "Virtual IoT and Edge Days" should be https://iot.eclipse.org/eclipse-virtual-iot-2021/


Thanks again!
Comment 45 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-04-29 14:54:01 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/community/+/180009
Comment 46 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-04-29 14:56:54 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #44)
> A few links that should be changed:
> 
> - The "Read More" button for Article 3 (Six Reasons...) should be
> https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2021/april/3.php
> 
> - Under Community Updates, the image for Open VSX (iPad thumbnail) should be
> https://outreach.eclipse.foundation/openvsx
> 
> - Under Upcoming Virtual Events, the image for "Virtual IoT and Edge Days"
> should be https://iot.eclipse.org/eclipse-virtual-iot-2021/
> 
> 
> Thanks again!

I updated staging with these updates.

https://staging.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2021/april/

Let me know if there's anything else.

Thanks.
Comment 48 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-04-29 19:54:23 EDT
Just noticing that "Maximilian" has two Ls in the about the author heading for Spotlight 1. Can we change it to Maximilian?
Comment 49 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-05-03 08:53:51 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/community/+/180123
Comment 51 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-05-03 08:58:41 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #48)
> Just noticing that "Maximilian" has two Ls in the about the author heading
> for Spotlight 1. Can we change it to Maximilian?

I updated Maximilian's name in the Author's section.

Let me know if there's anything else.

Thanks.
Comment 52 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-05-05 08:20:45 EDT
One last thing: The image for "Charting a Course for Cloud Native Java" under "Recent Newsletters" redirects to the March 2020 issue instead of the March 2021 one.
Comment 53 Jacob Harris CLA 2021-05-05 08:37:12 EDT
Can we make the updates to featured project/committer on the eclipse.org homepage live as well?
Comment 54 Eclipse Genie CLA 2021-05-05 08:39:14 EDT
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/community/+/180238
Comment 56 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-05-05 08:40:09 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #52)
> One last thing: The image for "Charting a Course for Cloud Native Java"
> under "Recent Newsletters" redirects to the March 2020 issue instead of the
> March 2021 one.

Hi Jacob,

I just merged a patch that will update the link for March 2021.

Let me know if there's anything else.

Thanks!
Comment 58 Eric Poirier CLA 2021-05-05 08:47:35 EDT
(In reply to Jacob Harris from comment #53)
> Can we make the updates to featured project/committer on the eclipse.org
> homepage live as well?

The home page has also been updated.

https://www.eclipse.org/home/