On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 19:29 +0200, Michael Osipov wrote:
> Am 2020-10-19 um 19:21 schrieb Oleg Kalnichevski:
> > On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 19:14 +0200, Michael Osipov wrote:
> > > Am 2020-10-19 um 19:12 schrieb Oleg Kalnichevski:
> > > > Folks
> > > > 
> > > > I personally think that our project web site is an absolute
> > > > disgrace.
> > > > The terrible quality of our web site really hurts the project.
> > > > 
> > > > Last time we discussed the subject I swore to not touch the
> > > > retched
> > > > thing unless absolutely necessary for release publishing.
> > > > 
> > > > Do we want to revisit the issue or shall we keep things as they
> > > > stand?
> > > 
> > > Revisiting means a lot of work. Before we start changing content
> > > we
> > > should sweep everything which is not wrong or not used at all.
> > > From
> > > that
> > > have a starting point for new discussion.
> > > 
> > 
> > That is correct. I would be prepared to either do most of work
> > myself
> > or hire a designer to do that for us. The main point of contention
> > however was the use of markdown as the markup language for the site
> > and
> > potential loss of Maven generated content (Maven project reports).
> > 
> > Could everyone live with migration to Markdown and no longer using
> > Maven Site plugin?
> 
> Why lose? Markdown based on Flexmark can be used with the Site
> plugin. 
> See here: https://github.com/apache/maven-site/
> 

Two reasons:

1. We cannot have our web site updated just by accepting a PR at
GitHub. Someone would still need to run maven and publish maven stuff.

2. I am a happy Maven user when it comes to using Maven as a build tool
but Maven web publishing just does not work well for our project in my
experience.

Oleg



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