+1 for me as well and another +1 for automation if we can have this
happen from the "site" branch.
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Michael Mior
mm...@apache.org

Le lun. 11 févr. 2019 à 05:01, Francis Chuang
<francischu...@apache.org> a écrit :
>
> Hey all,
>
> ASF project sites have the ability to use git instead of subversion as
> their repository for web site content [1]. It has been available since
> 2015 and appears to be quite stable. Quite a few other projects have
> also moved their websites to git and subsequently, Gitbox (for using
> Github as their source of truth. As an example, see the Arrow project [2].
>
> I myself would love to see this as I find gits interface and ux to be
> much easier to use compared to svn. It also reduces the need to context
> switch between Git and svn when editing and pushing the site.
>
> My overall goal is to find a way to automate the publishing and build of
> our websites either via Jenkins builds (there are some projects are
> doing this already when I searched infra) or the new Github actions [3].
> Having the site hosted in Git would make this process much easier to
> automate. I will need to get in touch with infra to clarify a few things
> and to see if this is feasible, but I think this is a worthwhile endeavor.
>
> How do you guys feel about moving our site's repository from svn to GitBox?
>
> Francis
>
>
> [1] https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/git_based_websites_available
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-17655
> [3] https://github.com/features/actions

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