Is this useful for us for Annotator? On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 8:32 PM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hello, fellow Apache committers and enthusiasts! > > Today, the Apache Infrastructure Team is launching new self-serve > features to help augment the productivity of Apache projects through a > series of simple configurations for enabling automation of various > service offerings. > > We call this new initiative '.asf.yaml', and as the name implies, it > consists of a new file that projects can add to their git repositories > to control various aspects that were previously done through JIRA > tickets and manual operations by the Infrastructure staff. > > For detailed information about these features and how to enable them, > please visit our documentation page at: https://s.apache.org/asfyaml > > At launch time, .asf.yaml has three features enabled that projects can > make use of: web site staging, web site publishing, and github meta-data > settings: > > web site staging: > Much like with the Apache CMS system, projects using git can now get > their web sites staged for previews at a specific (HTTPS-enabled) > staging domain. Staging supports multi-tenancy, which allows for > multiple staging web sites from different site repository branches. > For more information on multi-tenancy, see the canonical documentation > linked above. > > web site publishing: > Projects can now automatically set up publishing for their own main > web site ($project.apache.org) and change at will, without the need to > wait for assistance from the Infrastructure team. New podlings and > projects can also get web sites bootstrapped and ready immediately. > > github meta-data settings: > Projects can now, via .asf.yaml, specify their repositories' meta-data > on github, such as the description, homepage URL, and which topics to > add to a repository's front page. > > In the coming months, we will extend this feature with many new, > exciting features such as automated buildbot integration for web site > generation (think CMS but via git) and enhanced JIRA integration > automation. > > We hope projects will appreciate and make use of these new features. If > you or your project have any questions, please feel free to reach out to > us at: us...@infra.apache.org - but please read through the > documentation first :) > > With regards, and on behalf of the Apache Infrastructure Team, > Daniel. >
