I _might_ be able to do a migration to Antora soon.  I’ve been working on one 
for Aries.

IIUC a CMS site is somewhere in svn…. does anyone know the address for the 
Felix site?

David Jencks

> On Aug 24, 2020, at 1:56 AM, Karl Pauls <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> coming back to this issue. I did talk briefly (out of band) with Ray
> directly on the Monday after but unfortunately, he had other matters
> to attend to so this got lost a bit.
> 
> As far as I understand the situation we have to migrate our site away
> from the deprecated Apache CMS. There are various options but none are
> directly supported in the sense that we wouldn't have to work on our
> content.
> 
> That said, it seems like we can use .asf.yml to have our site staged
> and published from our felix-dev git repo and our CGis etc should
> still be supported. What we need to replace is the templating engine.
> We can either switch to something we run ourself like Jbake or the
> Antora proposed by Ray (which would require to convert our markdown to
> asciidoc) or we can try to use Jekyll which is supported by github
> pages directly (AFAIU) and would accept at least some of our existing
> markdown (so some work would need to be done).
> 
> Now, I personally don't have (much) time for this - hence, if need be,
> I would try to get some part of our site working with the existing
> templates using .asf.yml and github pages and we could try to get it
> all working eventually. However, if somebody volunteers to move
> everything (to something else or just in general) that would be much
> better. Is somebody willing and has the time to work on this in the
> next week or two?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Karl
> 
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 12:39 AM David Jencks <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Converting the Aries website to Antora seems to be fairly easy and quick, 
>> most likely I could do much of that that here too.
>> 
>> David Jencks
>> 
>>> On Aug 6, 2020, at 6:32 AM, Raymond Auge <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey Karl,
>>> 
>>> The more time passes the less time I will have to do this work, but I'll
>>> leave it until you're around.
>>> 
>>> - Ray
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 3:43 AM Karl Pauls <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Ray,
>>>> 
>>>> thanks a lot for picking this up!
>>>> 
>>>> I’m mostly offline this week but would like to look at the options as well.
>>>> Can we wait until next week until a decision is made?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Karl
>>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 6:30 PM Raymond Auge
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> ...So far the Apache Aries project seems to be leaning toward choosing
>>>>> Antora
>>>>>> [1] for choice of static site building tool...
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not really active in Felix so I'll let the PMC or whoever does the
>>>>> work decide.
>>>>> 
>>>>> However, as per [2] it looks like Antora supports only Asciidoc as its
>>>>> input format, whereas the current Felix site content is in Markdown.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This *might* represent more conversion work - however there are
>>>>> various flavors of Markdown, so even staying in that format will
>>>>> require some conversion work as well. For Sling we migrated from the
>>>>> Apache CMS to Jbake [3] and a number of things required fixing, even
>>>>> though we used Markdown in both cases.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Bertrand
>>>>> 
>>>>> [1] https://docs.antora.org/antora/2.3/
>>>>> [2] https://docs.antora.org/antora/2.3/page/
>>>>> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-6955
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Karl Pauls
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile>
>>> (@rotty3000)
>>> Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com>
>>> (@Liferay)
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Karl Pauls
> [email protected]

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