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Lewis John McGibbney commented on GORA-106:
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Aye keeping it simple is the aim of the game (from my pov anyway) with this
one. I'm very happy to get the gora CMS up and running.
Hi Andrew, I've been working on a patch for this, which in its current form is
nothing more than a simple phasing of html to markdown, so if you give me until
tomorrow then I'll upload what I've got OK... and yeah it would be great if we
could work on this together.
> Migrate Gora website documentation to Apache CMS
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: GORA-106
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-106
> Project: Apache Gora
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: documentation, website
> Affects Versions: 0.2
> Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.3
>
>
> I know in the past we've discussed the pro's and con's of the website etc.
> However, currently it is a bit of a pain to actually edit/update, build and
> commit/publish web content. This is a pain for committers never-mind any
> newer Gora users who may just wish to contribute documentation in a
> pain/hassle free manner. To illustrate this point I've pasted a conversation
> with a pro-Apache CMS ASF guy, whom I asked to look into the Gora
> documentation.
> {quote}
> So, right now, there's no README.
> build.xml suggests I use ant, so I did
> But no readme means the first ``ant'' will complain
> about forrest missing, and I'll say:
> Meh. All I wanted is fix a typo.
> You have to make it easy for people to contribute,
> and you're not!
> If you're living in a happy java world, everyone will
> have maven, so maven might be the way to go. If 277
> packages is all I need, then so be it, but I'll already
> have them installed.
> I fired up this email when I started the forrest checkout
> it's only done now, after 3:26.53.
> Let's see what else breaks :)
> AN EXCEPTION! And a backtrace! OH I LOVE THOSE!
> BUILD FAILED
> /home/igalic/src/asf/gora-site/build.xml:27: Execute failed:
> java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "../forrest/bin/forrest" (in
> directory "/home/igalic/src/asf/gora-site/author"): java.io.IOException:
> error=2, No such file or directory
> I touch author, but that doesn't bring me anywhere.
> Of course the error is that ant or forrest can't deal with relative paths,
> so I run it again as:
> igalic@tynix ~/src/asf/gora-site (svn)-[site:1240598] % ant
> -Dforrest.home=$( readlink -f ../forrest)
> And it fails again, because I didn't build forrest.
> By now I wonder if there's a forrest package in Fedora, but
> of course there isn't. So let's build forrest.
> Which in turn fails because Fedora has some weird
> JAVA_HOME pointing to an OpenJDK JRE.
> Back to building gora-site.
> It builds in 19s and I'm impressed, or hope I have reason to be.
> I go in my browser to /home/igalic/src/asf/gora-site/author/build/site
> expecting it to break horribly because it's using fixed URLs
> but it works. I'm impressed. I'm also impressed by its ugly,
> but that's beside the point. It works. And it only took me
> 30 minutes to get there.
> {quote}
> At this stage I let out a long sigh, and thought that it was about time to
> open this issue, taking the following into account.
> We need to "make it easy"
> * for people to contribute a small fix
> * for developers to actually write docs
> For the latter it should be in a form and a format they are used to,
> something that doesn't break their habits. If anyone has the habit of writing
> stuff down in notepad then markdown might be ideal... therefore we arrive @
> APACHE CMS.
> http://www.apache.org/dev/cms
> https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/the_asf_cms
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