Thanks Colin! Great work On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 12:37 PM Colin Alworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've successfully migrated the gwtproject.org website to a new domain > name server and new hosting, at Google's request. There are a few small > differences from the old hosting: > > > - HTTPS is now supported and enabled, though not yet mandatory, to > allow a period of migration, and making sure that no downstream tools will > break as a result of these changes. HSTS is also disabled for now. I > propose that mid-week I will update this to always redirect to HTTPS, and > then in another two or three weeks consider enabling HSTS if there have > been no reported issues. > - The samples.gwtproject.org domain now redirects to the showcase, > rather than giving a confusing 500 error. The samples are still at this > time hosted as static content rather than servlets. > - The GWT application that enhances the documentation has been > updated, picking up changes published ~2 years ago. > - Deep links that omit "www." (for example > gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuide.html) will now redirect to the > expected page (in this case www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuide.html) > rather than redirecting only to www.gwtproject.org. > > > Building and deployment of the new site is currently described at > https://github.com/Vertispan/gwtproject.org, and should be hostable with > or without DNS entries or HTTPS (though handling your own dns for " > gwtproject.org" itself may eventually conflict with HSTS). The README > contains some basic details on how the hosting is structured and how to run > on any arbitrary server. There is also a TODO list at > https://github.com/Vertispan/gwtproject.org/blob/main/TODO.md, which > could eventually be migrated to actual github issues. > > This could have been implemented through a similar build process that then > pushed to github-pages, but at least for now we decided against this. Once > some kind of continuous integration is in place to create pre-built > artifacts for gwt-site-webapp and gwt-site itself, it might make sense to > reconsider this, but for samples it still may make sense to use custom > hosting to phase out the current static-only samples and provide some > samples which can interact in some way with the server. > > If there are no objections to the current layout, configuration, > deployment, and documentation, I propose migrating this project to > github.com/gwtproject, as well as following up on the bullet points of > the TODO list. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Contributors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/94a1c877-78ac-40ea-9084-405514b8b3d4n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/94a1c877-78ac-40ea-9084-405514b8b3d4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CA%2BkiFsf5SR%2BvhiEPWUJK8vWiwPfSPfuOUxAXnTzX0MBqp0eWXQ%40mail.gmail.com.
