Thanks Gareth. FYI: Just so that everyone's aware, the Xerces-J build is currently completely self-contained. Everything it needs (including Ant and the Stylebook) is checked into the source tree. You just extract it, set your JAVA_HOME environment variable and call 'build'. This makes it easier to write scripts around building / testing a release. Was concerned how using CMS (or even Forrest) might complicate that and possibly make it more challenging to get out a release.
Michael Glavassevich XML Technologies and WAS Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Gareth Reakes <[email protected]> wrote on 16/04/2012 03:32:31 AM: > Hey Michael, > > OK - I will leave as is. When I get some time I will at least go > through the websites and ensure the docs and readmes are up to date > and accurate. > > Gareth > > On 11 Apr 2012, at 11:35, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > Hi Gareth, > > I tend to be one of the few that ever updates the site (and perhaps > I'm the only who did in the last 12 months). Consistency would be > good, but if the result is more complexity, I'm less likely to do anything. > > Thanks. > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Technologies and WAS Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [email protected] > E-mail: [email protected] > > Gareth Reakes <[email protected]> wrote on 11/04/2012 06:18:38 AM: > > > Hey Michael, > > > > If thats the preference thats fine by me as well. My only thoughts > > are that we: > > > > - need a consistent look and feel for the top level pages and all > > the local projects > > - use a system that is supported and existing and new contributors > > can get support on > > - have a well documented publishing system > > - limit the set up time and technical knowledge needed to make changes > > > > We don't have that at the moment. The READMEs in the docs > > directories are out of date or just plain wrong. You need old > > versions of java (as well as various other things installed in > > specific directories and a knowledge of ant to find out where they > > should be) just to build the commons sub project and the sites are > > not consistent. I was thinking this was an opportunity to move to > > something that would be more helpful and it seemed that the Apache > > CMS was suited to that. > > > > Again, these are just my thoughts and I am happy to go with the majority. > > > > Gareth > > > > On 11 Apr 2012, at 11:04, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > > > Perhaps I'm missing some detail but ASF CMS seems like a completely > > different tool for authoring web sites than any that we currently > > use. Personally had been hoping we'd move to using svnpubsub which > > seems more straightforward and doesn't require me to learn N new > > things (I probably won't have the time for) to do something which is > > simple today. > > > > If there's some (hopefully simple) way to use CMS just as a > > publishing tool of the sites we build as-is with Forrest / Stylebook > > that's fine too. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Michael Glavassevich > > XML Technologies and WAS Development > > IBM Toronto Lab > > E-mail: [email protected] > > E-mail: [email protected] > > > > Gareth Reakes <[email protected]> wrote on 11/04/2012 03:26:10 AM: > > > > > Hey Steven, > > > > > > As Michael says, Xerces is published manually at the moment. It > > > could do with a good bit of cleaning up. I was going to have a bash > > > at that over the coming weeks. I have taken a look at the at the ASF > > > CMS and it does seem a good way to go. At least at the end of it we > > > will have a consistent way of publishing the site thats well > > > documented and would allow new people to come along and change > > > things fairly easily. > > > > > > In terms of the look and feel, Michael borrowed the top level new > > > pages from XML graphics (which incidentally does use the Apache CMS > > > although our top level pages currently don't). Gary Gregory from > > > Apache Commons (note, thats not Xerces/XML commons) had some > > > examples of nice skins (including a yet to be published one for > > > commons). He says: > > > > > > …. > > > > > > In Apache Commons, we are probably going to change the site skin to > > > something like https://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/commons/ > > > > > > Background thread related to Apache Commons: http://www.mail- > > > archive.com/[email protected]/msg25733.html > > > > > > Also nice Apache sites IMO: https://directory.apache.org/, https:// > > > labs.apache.org/ > > > > > > Gary > > > > > ….. > > > > > > I am sure he would not mind us borrowing it :) Does anyone have any > > > views/ time to help out with this? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Gareth > > > > > > On 10 Apr 2012, at 18:55, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > Gareth, > > > > > > The Xerces XML web pages may already be maintained by ASF-CMS. > > > This is a front-end to a subversion repository tree that > > > is used by Infrastructure svnsubpub. > > > > > > If you find that Xerces XML is not using ASF-CMS, then > > > a svnsubpub registration for those web pages should also > > > be done. > > > > > > The Xalan XML TLP will need to be migrated to a subversion > > > directory path and registered with Infrastructure for svnsubpub. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > Steven J. 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Thompson > > -- > Gareth Reakes, CTO we7 - Great Free Music > +44-20-7117-0809 http://www.we7.com > > "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long > plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die > like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
