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| title: "gem5 Website Redesign" |
| author: Jason Lowe-Power |
| date: 2019-12-12 |
| categories: project |
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| Welcome to gem5's new website! |
| The old wiki has needed a refresh for a few years (see screenshot below), and we're excited to finally have something to share with the community! |
| We hope the new site has better usability and makes it easier to find information about gem5 and how to use it. |
| If you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to reach out on the gem5-dev [mailing list](/mailing_lists)! |
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| *gem5's original website* |
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| ## Status of the new website |
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| Details on the current status of the migration can be found [on Jira](https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-110). |
| We also have a specific issue for [migrating the old documentation to the new site](https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-115). |
| We've already moved most of the documentation, but there are still a few pages that we could use your help with! |
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| There will be some rough edges as we transition. |
| Some links may be broken, and it's possible we missed pages that should be migrated. |
| If you find any issues, please let us know via the [mailing list](/mailing_lists) or by opening an issue on [Jira](https://gem5.atlassian.net/). |
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| The website is currently hosted on GitHub pages. |
| If you'd like to contribute, feel free to create a [pull request](https://github.com/gem5/new-website/pulls) on the [source repository](https://github.com/gem5/new-website). |
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| ## Next steps |
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| We will leave this website at new.gem5.org for the next few weeks. |
| Please let us know if there's any blocking issues before we turn off the old wiki pages. |
| Before fully transitioning, we will download a static copy of the entire old website (including the old code reviews) and move this to old.gem5.org for archival purposes (and in case we missed anything!). |
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| ### Open issues |
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| There's many thing that can be improved with the new website, but I don't believe any are blocking. |
| A few things that we'd like help with include |
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| - Improving the documentation interface. Adding documentation is confusing since you have to both create the file and update `_data/documentation.yml`. |
| - Making the documentation more easily discoverable. |
| - Adding more documentation (always!) |
| - Fixing broken links |
| - Minor style sheet cleanups (e.g., the logo scrolls away when on documentation pages) |
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| ### Blog posts |
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| We're also looking for more blog contributors! |
| I would like to see 2-3 blog posts a month covering things like new gem5 features, how to use gem5 informally, workloads, cool papers published using gem5, etc. |
| Feel free to reach out to me (jason@lowepower.com) if you have other ideas as well! |
| If you'd like to contribute to the blog, open a PR on [GitHub](https://github.com/gem5/new-website). |
