+1, headline: "A serendipitous mistake leads to fast action at Mahout”
We now know Trevor is a webdev god :-) On May 13, 2017, at 8:21 AM, Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com> wrote: Trevor, thanks for the late night repairing things; I'm a +1 and will scrub this weekend for any markdown issues. On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:40 AM Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
