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Lorina Poland commented on CASSANDRA-16066:
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I'll let [~Anthony Grasso] answer, since I'm sort of on vacation right now.
I will just make the point that the reason we were building a docker container
that "runs" antora in cassandra was to facilitate a writer/developer building a
preview of the docs they are changing. We want to make it as easy as possible
for a contributor to check whether the doc change they propose will build
correctly.
Also, please understand that there are only yaml files for antora located in
the cassandra repo (site.yml for the preview build and antora.yml for the docs
source).
Lastly, the cassandra-website antora yaml files will build the whole site, docs
and non-docs pages. It will use the cassandra repo as one content source (for
the docs), and the cassandra-website repo as a second content source (for the
non-docs). Docs will not be built in the cassandra repo then moved, but rather
that repo will be sourced to build the docs as the website is built.
I think your diagram is not in agreement with what I just described. But I've
just had my first chance to try and digest this long convo.
> Update and rework cassandra-website material to work with Antora
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-16066
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16066
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Documentation/Website
> Reporter: Anthony Grasso
> Priority: Normal
> Attachments: image-2020-09-05-13-24-13-606.png,
> image-2020-09-06-07-17-14-705.png
>
>
> *We want to modernise the way the website is built*
> Rework the cassandra-website repository to generate a UI bundle containing
> resources that Antora will use when generating the Cassandra documents and
> website.
> *The existing method is starting to become dated*
> The documentation and website templates are currently in markdown format.
> Sphinx is used to generate the Cassandra documentation and Jekyll generates
> the website content. One of the major issues with the existing website
> tooling is that the live preview server (render site as it is being updated)
> is really slow. There is a preview server that is really fast, however it is
> unable to detect changes to the content and render automatically.
> *We are migrating the docs to be rendered with Antora*
> The work in CASSANDRA-16029 is converting the document templates to AsciiDoc
> format. Sphinx is being replaced by Antora to generate the documentation
> content. This change has two advantages:
> * More flexibility if the Apache Cassandra documentation look and feel needs
> to be updated or redesigned.
> * More modern look and feel to the documentation.
> *We can use Antora to generate the website as well*
> Antora could also be used to generate the Cassandra website content. As
> suggested on the [mailing
> list|https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg15577.html]
> this would require the existing markdown templates to be converted to
> AsciiDoc as well.
> *Antora needs a UI bundle to style content*
> For Antora to generate the document content and potentially the website
> content it requires a UI bundle (ui-bundle.zip). The UI bundle contains the
> HTML templates (layouts, partials, and helpers), CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and
> (site-wide) images. As such, it provides both the visual theme and user
> interactions for the documentation. Effectively the UI bundle is the
> templates and styling that are applied to the documentation and website
> content.
> *The [cassandra-website|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website]
> repository can be used to generate the UI bundle*
> All the resources associated with templating and styling the documentation
> and website can be placed in the
> [cassandra-website|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website] repository.
> In this case the repository would serve two purposes;
> * Generation of the UI bundle resources.
> * Serve the production website content.
> *The [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra] repository would contain
> the documentation material, while the rest of the non-versioned pages would
> contain that material*
> * All other material that is used to generate documentation would live in
> the [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra] repository. In this case
> Antora would run on the
> [cassandra/doc|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/doc] directory and pull in
> a UI bundle released on the GitHub
> [cassandra-website|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website] repository.
> The content generated by Antora using the site.yml file located in this repo
> can be used to preview the docs for review.
> * All other non-versioned material, such as the blogs, development
> instructions, and third-party page would live in the GitHub
> [cassandra-website|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website] repository.
> Antora will generate the full website using the site.yml located in this
> repo, using both as content sources the material located in both the
> [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra] and
> [cassandra-website|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website] repositories.
> *Design, content, and layout would remain the same*
> This proposal means the roles of each repository will change. In addition,
> the workflow to publish material will change as well. However, the website
> design, content, and layout will remain the same.
> As an added bonus the tooling would allow for a live preview server that is
> fast and responsive. However, the time to build and generate the {{nodetool}}
> and Cassandra YAML AssciDoc files will still take in the order of minutes to
> complete.
> *The [cassandra-website|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website]
> repository would need to be modified*
> The following changes would need to be made to the
> [cassandra-website|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website] repository:
> ||File/Directory||Action||Reason||
> |[content/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/content]|keep|Production
> site content served from this directory|
> |[src/_data/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/_data]|delete|_site.yml_
> and _antora.yml_ include this info|
> |[src/_includes/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/_includes]|delete|Replace
> with UI bundle components|
> |[src/_layout/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/_layout]|delete|Replace
> with UI bundle components|
> |[src/_plugins/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/_plugins]|delete|Replace
> with UI bundle components|
> |[src/_posts/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/_posts]|move|Convert
> to AsciiDoc format and place in
> [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra] repository|
> |[src/_sass/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/_sass]|delete|Replace
> with UI bundle components|
> |[src/_templates/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/_templates]|move|Convert
> to AsciiDoc format (template format for blog posts) and place in
> [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra] repository|
> |[src/blog/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/blog]|delete|Replace
> with _index.adoc_ that will be the initial page for blogs|
> |[src/css/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/css]|delete|Replace
> with UI bundle components|
> |[src/doc/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/doc]|delete|Content
> already generated with Antora in
> [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra] repository|
> |[src/icons/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/icons]|keep|Probably
> needed for site generation but might be moved to a different folder|
> |[src/img/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/img]|keep|Probably
> needed for site generation but might be moved to a different folder|
> |[src/js/|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/js/]|delete|Replace
> with UI bundle components|
> |[src/Gemfile|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/Gemfile]|delete|Replace
> with node modules|
> |[src/Gemfile.lock|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/Gemfile.lock]|delete|Replace
> with node modules|
> |[src/Makefile|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/Makefile]|delete|Replace
> build mechanism with Gulp and Docker|
> |[src/README|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/README]|delete|Place
> information and instructions in top level README|
> |[src/_config.yml|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/_config.yml]|delete|Replaced
> by _site.yml_|
> |[src/apachecon_cfp.md|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/apachecon_cfp.md]|delete??|This
> file is out of date|
> |[src/community.md|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/community.md]|move|Convert
> to AsciiDoc and place in [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra]
> repository|
> |[src/download.md|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/download.md]|move|Convert
> to AsciiDoc and place in [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra]
> repository|
> |[src/index.html|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/index.html]|keep|Might
> need to convert to AsciiDoc and place in
> [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra] repository|
> |[src/robot.txt|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/robot.txt]|keep|Needed
> by site|
> |[src/third-party.md|https://github.com/apache/cassandra-website/src/third-party.md]|move|Convert
> to AsciiDoc and place in [cassandra|https://github.com/apache/cassandra]
> repository|
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