Hi Josh, Thanks for your reply!
Do you have any further thoughts on this or do you think it's best to start a vote on this and see what other PMC members/committers/contributors think? Best, Roy On 2020/02/21 16:10:51, Josh Thompson <josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Roy, > > This sounds like a great idea! Thanks for reaching out to help with moving > us > out of svnpubsub and for providing a clear list of steps for migration. I'll > check with other PMC members, but I expect we'll take you up on your offer. > > Thanks, > Josh > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2020 8:37:42 AM EST Roy Lenferink wrote: > > Hi VCL community, > > > > I noticed VCL is still serving its site from SVN with help of the Apache > > CMS. At the Apache Celix project we decided to move away from the CMS and > > move towards git for serving our website [1]. This because the CMS was > > introduced in 2010 and is currently not accepting any new projects. With > > the move to e.g. a static site generator as Hugo we're sure that we still > > can update the site when the ASF CMS will be decommissioned. > > > > The master branch contains the actual website sources whereas the generated > > website is served from the asf-site branch. Hugo is being used as static > > website generator. Content is written in Markdown. > > > > I had a look at VCL its site and it was quite do-able to migrate VCL its > > site to use Hugo as well. An example of Hugo its output is (for demo > > purposes only) available on [2]. These are the existing markdown files with > > a slightly changed header. > > > > Moving to git can enlarge the visibility of how projects are functioning. > > Next to that, new contributors can just create a pull request against the > > website repository if they find anything they want to improve. An 'Edit on > > GitHub' button can be added as well to the site, e.g. an example of a page > > on the Celix website [3] > > > > If the community is interested in this move what I propose: > > - Someone from the PMC to request a new git repository for the website (e.g. > > vcl-site) via [4] - Me creating the pull request from the repository I am > > temporarily using for the website contents [5] to the official vcl-site > > repository > > - Create a Jenkins job to automatically build the site after changes happen > > on the master branch. - When the pull request is reviewed and merged ask > > INFRA to move over from the current svnpubsub to the gitpubsub approach and > > remove VCL from the Apache CMS. > > > > All the URLs are still the same so the SEO score is not influenced in any > > way. > > > > I'd like to hear everyone's opinion on this :) > > > > Best regards, > > Roy > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/celix-site > > [2] http://vcl.roylenferink.nl/ > > [3] http://celix.apache.org/contributing/releasing.html > > [4] https://gitbox.apache.org/setup/newrepo.html > > [5] https://github.com/rlenferink/vcl-site > > - -- > - ------------------------------- > Josh Thompson > VCL Developer > North Carolina State University > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu > > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public > Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iF0EARECAB0WIQRMIdRtWXideTZDK31X8tBw1209AwUCXlABCwAKCRBX8tBw1209 > A0pOAJ4ybuVtcK+IFHMSvbupvhy2fXe+fACfb5oMAPxtHjuqA4za5ib/4Oj06E8= > =Ej1z > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >
