Folks,
I've taken some time this holiday to tackle some backlogged issues for
our project. In particular, I've put a fair amount of work towards
moving our website from SVN to Git. I'm happy to say the move was a
success.
Our website now resides at https://github.com/apache/aurora-website with
the asf-site branch being shown at https://aurora.apache.org/ and the
asf-staging branch being shown at https://aurora.staged.apache.org/
As part of this effort I've moved our website generating tooling from
vagrant to docker.
The Dockerfile used to generate the image resides at
https://github.com/apache/aurora-website/blob/asf-staging/Dockerfile
while a Docker image resides at
https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/apache/aurora-website with the
tag dev.
Hopefully this allows us to move towards automating the generation of
the site any time documentation is updated.
Some minutia and background on this:
With the release of 0.22.0[1], our website had to be updated to reflect
the latest release. When I tried to update the website, our Vagrant
setup had become stale since the 0.21.0 release to the point that it
broke. Some dependencies needed a newer version of Ruby (>= 2.0.0) which
led me to updating our static site generator, Middleman[2], to the
latest version 4.3.5. Everything worked fine with a newer version of
Ruby, 2.5.0, and the website was updated, until I tried navigating the
site and realized the upgrade had generated broken links.
Something had changed between our previous version 3.4.1 and the latest
release regarding how pretty urls[3] are generated. I was unsuccessful
in finding a fix to issue in a timely manner. Therefore I decided to
roll back to the previous version. To get a version (Ruby 2.0.0) that
worked without breaking anything else, I decided to roll out a docker
image with RVM[4] which puts us in control of our own Ruby version.
With our current setup, we can now get the image from the
apache/aurora-website repo and everything is ready to generate the site
immediately which hopefully allows us to avoid landing in this scenario
again.
Hope everyone had a wonderful new year!
-Renan
[1] http://aurora.apache.org/blog/aurora-0-22-0-released/
[2] https://middlemanapp.com/
[3] https://middlemanapp.com/advanced/pretty-urls
[4] https://rvm.io/
