Hi Ralph--thanks for opening this up and offering a concrete direction. This sounds like a good approach and I will try to read up on the link you provided in the next couple of days.
Matt On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > Infra has mandated that all projects move to the Apache CMS (or svnpubsub) by > the end of the year. We also must change from distributing releases from > people.apache.org to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/commons. Changing > the second item is fairly trivial but migrating the web site is a pretty > large effort. > > The Logging project is also an umbrella project, albeit much smaller, and > recently made the migration. I recommend that commons use the same (or > similar) mechanism that Logging is using - the main site uses the CMS > directly and sub projects can either use the CMS or be manually committed. > See (http://wiki.apache.org/logging/ManagingTheWebSite). > > To summarize, > 1. The main Commons site would be managed at > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/site/trunk. > 2. Each subproject would reside at > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/production/commons/content/projectname. > 3. If the subproject does not use the CMS it would be specified in > extpaths.txt and would follow guidelines similar to the wiki link above. > 4. If the project uses the CMS it would not be specified in extpaths.txt and > would commit its files into the svn area in item 1. > > FWIW, I've also built the Flume website using this model. They use maven to > build the main site (the CMS will run "mvn site" when any content is > changed). Logging is using a tool called Twig. > > I'm not necessarily volunteering to build the site as I don't have a lot of > time at the moment, but I am willing to help since I've done it for two > projects now. > > Comments? > > Ralph > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
