Hey Felix, I did this a bit earlier in the year for the Apache ACE site, so I can definitely help out a bit.
On Dec 13, 2012, at 13:49 , Felix Meschberger <fmesc...@adobe.com> wrote: > Earlier this year, Apache Infrastructure announced to switch off rsync > support for Web Site management. On January, 1st, 2013, this will no actually > happen. > > We are a bit late in the game, so I started as follows: > > * I created FELIX-3816 to track the migration > * I created INFRA-5648 to ask for staging creation > > I will now export the existing Confluence content into SVN and start > converting the pages. This will be an iterative process being mostly > automatic. Since not everything can easily be converted, we will still have > to cross check the pages and do some fine-tuning. > > What does this change mean at the end ? > > (1) We will get immediate site updates: Whenever we change one or more pages > and publish, the change will almost immediately be seen on the web. There is > no multi-hour delay and incertainty any longer Yes, this is a great advantage. Also, we can "stage" changes, and view them on a special staging site before we publish them. All in all this is one of the biggest advantages I've seen so far using the new approach. > (2) As a markup language "markdown" has been chosen. See [1] for links to the > respective documentation. > (3) We have more freedom in how we "build" our site. The initial look of the > new site will be the same as the current site. But we may change this easily > later on. > > When switching I think we should start with a double site: The new site > available directly through the URL at http://felix.apache.org and the old > site still available at http://felix.apache.org/site. This has nice > advantage, that links from the web still work and we can crosscheck the new > pages against the old ones easily. Over time we will remove the old pages but > add (static) redirects to still support the old URLs but redirected to the > new pages. So you propose that we make the new and old sites 100% identical as a first step, and then replace the old site with a bunch of redirects, and then start discussing potential changes and improvements to our site (layout and content wise)? Greetings, Marcel
