Thanks for taking the time to do this, Stack!

I'm OK with this.  I'd also be OK with someone stepping up to do a
fancier site (either later, or now) :)

best,
Colin

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote:
> I posted an amalgam of maven site, bootstrap, and markdown: i.e. maven site
> generates a bootstrap branded site and doc is written in markdown.  It
> looks like this: http://people.apache.org/~stack/htrace_website/  See issue
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTRACE-19 for the patch and more
> detail.  You all ok w/ this being our first cut at a website?
>
> St.Ack
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Jake Farrell <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> cms has its advantages and drawbacks. I've used middleman, jekyll, maven,
>>> and the cms to generate different ASF sites and so far the one that I
>>> prefer for use is middleman. Having the ability to use markdown and live
>>> local dev vs having to push to buildbot (which if down then no site
>>> updates
>>> can occur). Example of middleman in use that I did is for mesos or thrift
>>> (thrift also has a cms version since we tested them all out). we can
>>> switch
>>> to whichever variant people are most comfortable with, just need to make
>>> sure that its documented so any committer can update the site easily
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Jake.
>>
>> I looked at middlman.  It is for 'hand-made' sites.  Looks nice.  Just
>> putting our README.md in place of the index.html in default site I got this
>> http://people.apache.org/~stack/htrace_mm_site/  so markdown works (just
>> need to read how to get the styling in there).
>>
>> On other hand, just doing mvn site got me this far:
>> http://people.apache.org/~stack/htrace_mvn_site/ which is kinda
>> attractive.
>>
>> I don't have much time for website making. Maybe someone else does though.
>> Otherwise I'd be inclined toward the one takes the least amount of work.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> St.Ack
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> -Jake
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > CMS ROCKS
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > How should we do the website?  Jake set up the svnpubsub for us so
>>> we'd
>>> > > generate the static site and then publish it only, we have no
>>> 'website'
>>> > > currently.
>>> > >
>>> > > I could do a little fixup and then generate the site with 'mvn site'.
>>> > > That'd be easy (if ugly). Going forward, changing the website, you'd
>>> > edit,
>>> > > stage, and the svn commit to deploy (a minor burden).
>>> > >
>>> > > We have a bit of markdown carried over the github deploy.  If our site
>>> > used
>>> > > 'apache cms' [1][2], we could just put up our little bit of *.md.
>>> Devs
>>> > > could just login and edit the site; there would be no build, publish
>>> > step.
>>> > >
>>> > > Jake, is it even possible to move to 'apache cms' post setup?
>>> > >
>>> > > Any other opinions out there on how to proceed?
>>> > > Thanks,
>>> > > St.Ack
>>> > >
>>> > > 1. http://incubator.apache.org/guides/sites.html
>>> > > 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > *Lewis*
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>

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