IS the ASF okay with simply doing a one time commit to SVN, of a single HTML page which forwards to gh-pages?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:19 AM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> If there is sufficient demand, however, that could change - the code > that > > would make this possible does exist. > > > > I would like to express demand from the Flink project. svn is a pain to > use > > (since we host javadocs and our documentation on our website, the upload > > usually runs for 6+ hours. Probably because its so many files). > > > > Almost all incoming incubator projects are using git nowadays. Many of > them > > use GitHub and the "gh-pages" hosting feature. I guess a lot of them > would > > appreciate a similar feature from the ASF infra. > > > > > > The svn infrastructure we have now just works, and from the standpoint > of having to manage ~200 websites, it's relatively simple. > Replicating that functionality with Git is possible, but adds > relatively little in terms of functionality. With the projects on > folks plates right now, the contractors at least, won't have time to > begin looking at this for at least 18 months. Volunteers could of > course tackle this if wanted. > > --David > -- jay vyas
