+1 as well. I would be extremely happy moving to Jekyll.
The one concern I had was regarding automatic rendering of what would look like "the Apache Accumulo website" on Github (both apache/accumulo github account and other forks).
Christopher had said that no one seemed to object in comdev@ when he talked about this a while back. I wanted to make sure everyone considered this (for example, Christopher's fork of Drill's repository now also looks like a canonical host of the Apache Drill project). I'm not actively stating that I think it's an issue at this point, only suggesting that we give it some thought and maybe ask someone who is more knowledgable (Shane from trademarks?) before moving forward. The worst case I envision is that we find some way to "gimp" the github-rendered site (redirect back to the canonical accumulo.apache.org or similar).
Christopher wrote:
I got some information back from INFRA about how the git-based sites work. It's just plain old static hosting of a git branch. So, whatever we'd put in a specified branch would show up directly on the site, no rendering or generation. This would completely bypass CMS and buildbot staging builds. Was discussing this with elserj in IRC, and these ideas came out of that: 1. Switch site to use git branch named "site" or "website" or similar. 2. Use jekyll 3 to generate the static site contents in this git branch. 3. Store the unrendered (markdown) jekyll stuff in a gh-pages branch. 4. Possibly set up a post-commit hook on gh-pages branch to render locally and commit the generated static site to the "site" branch. This would have the following benefits: * Canonical rendering of "site" branch at http://accumulo.apache.org * Identical, automatic rendering of gh-pages branch at http://apache.github.io/accumulo * Changes to gh-pages in forks would render in fork's github.io for preview/testing * Jekyll can be run locally for preview for non-GitHub users wishing to contribute updates to site * Use of jekyll means we can still edit/use markdown to edit pages * Can still include non-markdown content and raw html Another project which seems to be doing this (or something close to it) is Apache Drill: https://drill.apache.org/ http://apache.github.io/drill/ http://ctubbsii.github.io/drill/ (example fork build)
