Just picking this out for a separate thread - On 24 October 2011 14:31, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Ok, I filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-804 "Each >> page in Mahout's Confluence Wiki has 2 URLs, with differing page >> styles and search behaviours" and it's just sat there, and I feel a >> bit like it comes over light pointless complaining; probably you all >> knew the wiki was a bit messy, and everyone's busy, so it doesn't >> really need a JIRA. > > This has to do with the fact that we are misusing Confluence. ASF says our > site is supposed to link to the auto export site (the crappy looking one) but > the auto export plugin looks like crap compared to the main one. So, without > digging into Confluence and the auto export plugin, it's hard to know what to > do. ASF seems to say various things :) I previously transcribed what I found into https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-804 comments, but to cut to the conclusion: """Found some Mahout backstory, http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Old-Site-td1406298.html This cites https://cwiki.apache.org/CWIKI/#Index-Canweusetheautoexportsiteaspartofourmainwebsite%3F which in turn suggests that auto-exported sites will be disabled around Nov 2011: "Projects who do currently use Confluence as a CMS and then use the AutoExported tool to create a website should make plans to convert to another publishing tool, such as the new CMS system. It is estimated that crontab jobs containing rsyncs of autoexport sites will be removed around November 2011 (Likely during ApacheCon)" "Can we use the mirror of the autoexport site as our main web site? Yes (until Around November 2011). You can either name the home page for your site "index", so that it will load by default, or add a index.html to the root website folder that will redirect to the export folder. BUT note the caveats above, no more new autoexported websites effective 1/11/2011 and existing sites to be phased out by November 2011." "It is estimated that crontab jobs containing rsyncs of autoexport sites will be removed around November 2011 (Likely during ApacheCon)." """" That's in a couple of weeks, right? Anyone here familiar with the "new CMS system"? Nothing obvious in http://www.apache.org/dev/infrastructure.html maybe more in http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-mail.html#lists somewhere. Note that search engines are excluded by https://cwiki.apache.org/robots.txt from the /confluence/ area ... so if the above threat/promise goes through, pages like https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Algorithms will remain unobtainable in search engines, and their uglier derrivatives like https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/algorithms.html will be frozen and stale. Is the simplest short-term stopgap for someone else to re-run the auto exporter, if the crontab is killed next month? Dan
