Hi Roy,
On 21/02/2020 19:31, Roy Lenferink wrote:
Hi Directory community,
I noticed Directory is still serving its site from SVN with help of the Apache
CMS. At the Apache Celix
project we decided to move away from the CMS and move towards git for serving
our website [1].
This because the CMS was introduced in 2010 and is currently not accepting any
new projects. With
the move to Hugo we're sure that we still can update the site when the ASF CMS
will be
decommissioned.
The master branch contains the actual website sources whereas the generated
website is served
from the asf-site branch. Hugo is being used as static website generator.
Content is written in
Markdown.
About a week ago I started migrating the MINA site from SVN to Git [6] and
today I converted the
directory site as well. An example of Hugo its output is (for demo purposes
only) available on [2].
These are the existing markdown files with a slightly changed header.
Moving to git can enlarge the visibility of how projects are functioning. Next
to that, new contributors
can simply create a pull request against the website repository if they find
anything they want to
improve (an 'Edit on GitHub' / 'Edit this page' button can be added as well,
like this [3]).
If the community is interested in this move what I propose:
- Someone from the PMC to request a new git repository for the website (e.g.
directory-site) via [4]
- Me creating the pull request from the repository I am temporarily using for
the website contents [5]
to the official directory-site repository
- Create a Jenkins job to automatically build the site after changes happen on
the master branch.
- When the pull request is reviewed and merged ask INFRA to move over from the
current svnpubsub
to the gitpubsub approach and remove Directory from the Apache CMS.
Next to that Directory is also providing javadocs on its site. My proposal for
this is to serve them from
a separate branch (e.g. mavibot-docs / apacheds-docs etc.). This way people who
only want to clone
the site can clone the the master branch using --single-branch and will not be
bothered with cloning
all the javadocs.
All the URLs are still the same so the SEO score is not influenced in any way.
I'd like to hear some opinions/thoughts on this :)
I'm all in for such a move, but I would wait for MINA to be done, as I
have very little time at the moment to conduct such a migration (I'm on
MINA and Directory projects, so I'll benefit from what I have learned
from MINA migration).
Thanks !
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