+1, no objection from me as well.

I’m smoothly reconnecting dots on Brooklyn ;)

Regards
JB

> Le 21 mai 2021 à 14:23, Thomas Bouron <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> +1 to revert back to Jekyll, and shame on Gitbook and me to have pushed for
> that change.
> 
> Also, thank you Alex!
> 
> Best.
> 
> On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 11:40, Duncan Grant <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> The apache brooklyn docs have become difficult to build as they are based
>> on gitbook, which has moved away from supporting an OSS model. [1]. Because
>> of this the giitbook cli is no longer being maintained and, on mac at
>> least, is becoming difficult to run. On the other hand Jekyll [2] is in
>> active development and is being well supported by the community.
>> 
>> So Alex has created a PR [3] to revert back to using Jekyll and update to
>> the latest ruby and Jekyll releases.  I've tested this and it is working
>> well and building locally is almost instantaneous making it really nice to
>> update the docs.
>> 
>> It doesn mean we've lost the template/formatting that we had with gitbook
>> and it looks like it did in the past but I think that having a working and
>> easily updatable set of docs is more important.  Obviously we would welcome
>> any commits from anyone who wishes to improve the styling.
>> 
>> I'll merge Alex's PR later today if no one has any major objections.
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> Duncan
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook
>> [2] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
>> [3] https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-docs/pull/315
>> 
>> --
>> Duncan Grant
>> Lead Software Engineer
>> 
>> *Cloudsoft <https://cloudsoft.io/> *| Bringing Business to the Cloud
>> 
>> GitHub: https://github.com/duncangrant/
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Bouron
> Lead Software Engineer
> 
> *Cloudsoft <https://cloudsoft.io/> *| Bringing Business to the Cloud
> 
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