Each module has a site package. The documentation in these packages needs
to be brought back in to the mix again as well.

On Saturday, April 2, 2016, Tom Barber <tom.bar...@meteorite.bi> wrote:

> Alright folks,
>
> Most peope who have been on the list for a while know we moved from the
> most static of static websites to Apache CMS a while ago to allow for more
> regular updating and maintenance of the website.
>
> Lewis then put a bunch of work into creating a template for the CMS website
> and we revamped a lot of the content, but the CMS has a bunch of issues
> both in the ease of developing a website and also in maintenance so the
> Infra team are retiring it.
>
> My personal opinion(having done some of this in my day job, and discussed
> similar on some other ASF projects) is we migrate the website to gitsubpub
> and Jekyll.
>
> This will give us the ability to easily stand up the existing website on
> our own laptops, or development servers make changes and deploy them. Also
> without the templating system that Apache CMS enforces upon you, its  a far
> quicker development cycle.
>
> Of course we could just use standard HTML & Javascript, but part of the
> reason I'd like to use Jekyll is the fact users can create content using
> Markdown syntax instead of HTML and Javascript. Jekyll is a static blogging
> platform, so its designed for frequent updating, and as people may have
> noticed I've been blogging OODT stuff on my personal blog because the CMS
> is a pain to update.
>
> Has anyone got an opinion? It feels like we did stage one which was make
> the website easier to update, but stage two is to make the process a lot
> easier, and standardised.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>


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*Lewis*

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