We had a little incident tonight where the 'beta' website was accidentally made "live".
There was a decision point where we could either attempt to roll back the subversion commit, or rebuild the old website, with the original website "skin", and push that into subversion. It was a bit of a panic moment, the way to revert in svn wasn't clear, the way to rebuild via jekyll with the old skin was. If you look at the site at the moment (http://mahout.apache.org) it may look a very slight touch "off" wrt layout due to how Jekyll compiles markdown vs how the old CMS perl scripts did. What this means to any committers interested in updating the website- 1. CMS (the old website content management system) is effectively out of service for the moment. Any edits made via this will likely yield no effect, if even possible at all. 2. Mahout 1984 has a file that contains how to "push" the new website https://github.com/apache/mahout/pull/317/files#diff-5fa0ea823e3992aeb3922682c29104b6 3. The 0.13.1-SNAPSHOT website docs AND 0.13.1 Scala/Java Docs are also now live. (this is the silver lining of the incident- though they are based on the current "dorky" layout) http://mahout.apache.org/docs/0.13.1-SNAPSHOT/ http://mahout.apache.org/docs/0.13.1-SNAPSHOT/scaladocs/spark/#package http://mahout.apache.org/docs/0.13.1-SNAPSHOT/scaladocs/math-scala/#package http://mahout.apache.org/docs/0.13.1-SNAPSHOT/javadocs/ Calling for 72 hour, lazy consensus on making this change over permanent (as opposed to someone doing some research on figuring out how to get into svn and roll back to old site; +1 = let it be, -1 do a revision in svn) Following that period, assuming no objections- will file JIRA and begin work on updating Jenkins to automatically build and push the site nightly with any changes to docs (which will happen via gihub pull request- atm current site can be updated via changes to https://github.com/apache/mahout/tree/master/website/oldsite changes to docs can be made by prs against files in https://github.com/apache/mahout/tree/master/website/docs
