Hi folks,
This is just an interim report. I've made contact with David Crossley who is the chair of the Apache Forrest PMC. The followings are Q&A regarding how to automate the building of the Apache projects' site.
Thanks, Toshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:53:39 +1100 From: David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Toshiyuki Kimura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Q] About using Forrestbot for the Apache projects
Toshiyuki Kimura wrote:
David Crossley wrote: > >I would prefer that everything gets discussed on an ASF mailing list. >I am happy for you to pass this response on to your PMC list or even >to your dev list.
Thank you very much for the advice and the warm reply !
My pleasure. Glad that i could communicate.
I'll forward the message to axis-*-dev lists and pmc AT ws.
Then, I might visit forrest-dev if we have any follow-up questions on this issues.
Please do. We need to minimise all hurdles with documentation creation and publishing.
--David
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:40:54 +1100 From: David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Toshiyuki Kimura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Q] About using Forrestbot for the Apache projects
Toshiyuki Kimura wrote: > Hi David, > > My apologies in advance for this unexpected private mail.
I would prefer that everything gets discussed on an ASF mailing list. I am happy for you to pass this response on to your PMC list or even to your dev list.
> The Web Services project has a number of sites which are > generated by Forrest. Then, the Axis dev team has just migrated to > Forrest 0.6. It works fine very much !!
Good.
> The only one thing that we hope Forrest to have, is easy-to-checkout > and easy-to-checkin. Especially, many of committers make complaints > about the duplexed checkin sequence for the generated HTML sources > and the XML sources of Forrest.
That is not Forrest's fault. That is a current requirement of the ASF. All generated websites must be under source control. This applies whether it is generated using Forrest, Maven, Anakia, etc.
There is a proposal to change that requirement: http://forrest.apache.org/proposal-asf-publish.html
> Sure, I know Forrestbot. But, I'm not sure whether it's stable > and it's OK to use for the Apache projects' site.
It is stable and it works fine. However, it will never be used to do "svn commit" of generated ASF websites. Using role-based commits are also frowned upon.
That is another reason for the "Proposal" referred to above - generate on another server and use rsync. However that is still only a proposal.
We don't even use forrestbot for our own Apache Forrest project website.
We do have an experimental forrestbot to accompany the abovementioned proposal: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=110637660517206
> Do you have any good and shorter way to solve our problem ?
Other the proposal, no.
--David
