Alright, I've asked the Infra team to migrate the repository to Git and setup a GitHub sync.
Git migration: https://issues.apache.org/jira/servicedesk/agent/INFRA/issue/INFRA-11318 GitHub sync: https://issues.apache.org/jira/servicedesk/agent/INFRA/issue/INFRA-11319 Cheers, Max On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:00 PM, James Malone <[email protected]> wrote: > That would be awesome. Full disclosure - I </3 SVN but <3 git. > > Happy to help however I can and any experience anyone has for making that > happen is welcomed. :) > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Maximilian Michels <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi James, >> >> The updated website looks good to me. I agree that it will simplify >> work for a lot of people who are used to Jekyll. >> >> The website is already in the SVN repository. After we have sorted out >> the CCLAs, the only thing that is left is a GitHub sync to make it >> more accessible for contributors. The prerequisite for that is that we >> change it to Git. Apache Infra can do that (we have done likewise for >> the Flink website repository and it works great). >> >> Cheers, >> Max >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM, James Malone >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > Since we're in the process of getting bootstrapped, I wanted to improve >> on >> > our website a bit, especially since we have a new logo. >> > >> > The first site was built using Maven sites. To be honest, it presented a >> > bit of a problem because many of the Beam committers have used GitHub >> docs >> > to date and wanted a system which was somewhat similar. Since GH docs is >> > built on Jekyll (as far as I know) I figured that might actually be an >> > easier way to build the website anyway. >> > >> > So, I just updated the incubator website. with an exact copy of the old >> > site but using Jekyll + Bootstrap 3. That should hopefully make it easier >> > for anyone and everyone to work against (and to move existing docs.) >> > >> > The repository for the current site is here: >> > >> > https://github.com/evilsoapbox/beam-site >> > >> > I also have a tgz of the old site in case there's any concern or >> > disagreement. Needless to say, when we sort out the CCLAs (which should >> be >> > very soon) I'd like to get this in a project repo somewhere so we can >> have >> > better version control and review. >> > >> > Finally, the theme is basic bootstrap with a few changes (like using >> Roboto >> > as the font to match the logo.) I figure if/when there's interest in >> > detailed design, we can cover that as a seperate discussion. >> > >> > Cheers! >> > >> > James >>
