Ralph, if you need some help, let me know. Next weekend I've time.

- Alex

On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Ralph Goers wrote:

> OK - I will try to get something going this weekend.
> 
> Ralph
> 
> On Jun 28, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ralph,
>> 
>> Since there are no objections or suggestions other than what you have
>> previously described, I suggest you proceed with how you would like this to
>> be setup. For the time being I have created an infrastructure request to
>> setup the website infrastructure [1]. Please feel free to modify that
>> request or add details to it as you feel fit.
>> 
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4982
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Arvind Prabhakar
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Arvind Prabhakar <[email protected]>wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ralph Goers 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I guess I've embedded the discussion on the web site in with this
>>>> discussion and the OOM issues because how the documentation is generated is
>>>> related to how it is displayed on the web site and the problems the build
>>>> was/is having.
>>>> 
>>>> I am very tempted to go ahead and create a Sphinx-baesd web site starting
>>>> with what you've already done, but I don't want to waste my time if that
>>>> isn't what is wanted. If I did this it would be built by the CMS system and
>>>> therefore would reside in something like
>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/flume/site/cms/trunk instead of the
>>>> main source trunk.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My +1 and thanks for doing this. The website needs to be updated and
>>> manageable so if you have the necessary cycles, then please do go ahead
>>> with it.  Currently the site lives in [1] and uses basic xdoc for
>>> structured content. Personally, I have no objections to continue using xdoc
>>> or moving to a different tool if you feel would add more value.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/flume/site/
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> However, it should be possible to capture the documentation into the
>>>> release distribution if that is desired or required.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> While some projects maintain most up to date documentation on the site,
>>> IMO it is better to have versioned documentation that corresponds to the
>>> release versions available right at the webstie.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Arvind Prabhakar
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ralph
>>>> 
>>>> Re: [DISCUSS] documentation formats
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 24, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Mike Percy wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I don't think there has been a discussion of how to build the website.
>>>> If that is something you want to work on, you could always start a discuss
>>>> thread about it. Sphinx has a ton of theming and format output options.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Mike
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 


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