Anthony Dillon
on 6 September 2017

Webteam development summary


This article is more than 7 year s old.

Iteration 6

dating between 14th to the 25th of August

This iteration saw a lot of work on tutorials.ubuntu.com and on the migration of design.ubuntu.com from WordPress to a fresh new Jekyll site project. Continued research and planning into the new snapcraft.io site, with some beginnings of the development framework.

Vanilla Framework put a lot of emphasis into polishing the existing components and porting the old theme concept patterns into the code base.

Websites issues: 66 closed, 33 opened (551 in total)

Some highlights include:
– Fixing content of card touching card edge in tutorials – https://github.com/canonical-websites/tutorials.ubuntu.com/issues/312
– Migrate canonical.com to Vanilla: Polish and custom patterns – https://github.com/canonical-websites/www.canonical.com/issues/172
– Prepare for deploy of design.ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/canonical-websites/design.ubuntu.com/issues/54
– Redirect from https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/ to https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn were broken – https://github.com/canonical-websites/www.ubuntu.com/issues/2128
design.ubuntu.com/web-style-guide build page and then hide pages – https://github.com/canonical-websites/design.ubuntu.com/issues/66
– Snapcraft prototype: Snap page – https://github.com/canonical-websites/snapcraft.io/issues/346
– Create Flask skeleton application –https://github.com/canonical-websites/snapcraft-flask/issues/2

Vanilla Framework issues: 24 closed, 16 opened (43 in total)

Some highlights include:
– Combine the entire suite of brochure theme patterns to Vanilla’s code base – https://github.com/vanilla-framework/vanilla-framework/issues/1177
– Many improvements to the documentation theme – https://github.com/vanilla-framework/vanilla-docs-theme/issues/45
– External link icon seems stretched – https://github.com/vanilla-framework/vanilla-framework/issues/1058
– .p-heading–icon pattern remove text color – https://github.com/vanilla-framework/vanilla-framework/issues/1272
– Remove margin rules on card content – https://github.com/vanilla-framework/vanilla-framework/issues/1277

All of these projects are open source. So please file issues if you find any bugs or even better propose a pull request. See you in two weeks for the next update from the web team here at Canonical.


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