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
>>

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