I am not sure about the blog. I would assume the blog content would
reside somewhere else and the website just refer to them?

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Stephan Ewen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to kick off a discussion concerning the project website.
>
> Ufuk, Robert, Fabian, Kostas, and me had a chat today about the website
> (and other online contents) and the infrastructure to host them.
>
> As an outcome of that discussion we would propose the following. Please let
> us know what you think of it.
>
>
> 1) Project Website with general overview.
>
> Similar to what Mahout offers as a start page. Information about the
> project, basic introductions to what flink is, links, status, downloads,
> community, infrastructure.
>
> We would like to create the website in using markdown & jekyll and keep
> both the markdown files and the rendered html files in the website SVN.
>
> 2) "How to contribute" infos
>
> As a part of the website, we would like to include a tutorial on how to
> start contributing. This section would include
>
>   - Short summary about how to fork and create pull requests against the
> github mirror. Infos how to build and test the code (possibly how to
> connect testing infrastructure to your fork)
>
>   - Coding guidelines and how to verify correctness (tests, licences,
> headers, checkstyle)
>
>   - A list of issues that would make good "starter" issues in order to
> learn the process. Some of us have started using labels in JIRA to mark
> such issues, we could simply link a JIRA query there.
>
> Similar to the remainder of the website, this would go into the website SVN
> as jekyll flavored markdown and rendered html.
>
>
> 3) Documentation for Flink users.
>
> These docs should explain how to use the system (setup, examples, APIs,
> ...) We would start with what the current stratosphere website has under
> "docs" (http://stratosphere.eu/docs/0.5/) and "quickstart" (
> http://stratosphere.eu/quickstart/) and adjust the contents to the current
> state and name of the project.
>
> Our thought was to represent all documentation in markdown and make it part
> of the code. That way changes to the code and the relevant docs can be done
> together. Versioning the code also versions the documentation
> automatically. Requests to update the docs come as pull requests or patches
> in the same way as fixes for the code come.
>
> We would deploy rendered html files from the documentation once per release
> to the website.
>
>
> 4) Documentation about the system internals.
>
> These docs would be relevant to developers, contributors, and others
> interested in learning how Flink works. We were thinking about architecture
> diagrams for different components and guides like "how to add an operator".
>
> We thought about adding these system internal docs to git repository.
> Similarly as the user docs, they could evolve with the code and would be
> easy to update or everybody.
>
>
> 5) JavaDocs
>
> The JavaDocs are generated on every maven build anyways, would be pushed
> into the SVN for releases.
>
>
> 6) Blog
>
> The blog would be part of the website and come in the same way as markdown.
>
>
> In addition, we has some thoughts about what to do with snapshot versions
> of the documentation and JavaDocs. I leave that to a separate discussion
> thread, though.
>
>
> We are happy to get your comments and what experiences you made with those
> approaches.
>
>
> Stephan

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