Hi all,

I think most (definitely valid) points have been addressed. I'll start a vote 
for this shortly.

Roy

On 2020/02/15 13:28:11, Roy Lenferink <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Hi Jena community,
> 
> I noticed Jena is still serving its site from SVN with help of the Apache 
> CMS. At the Apache Celix 
> project we decided to move away from the CMS and move towards git for serving 
> our website [1]. 
> This because the CMS was introduced in 2010 and is currently not accepting 
> any new projects. With 
> the move to Hugo we're sure that we still can update the site when the ASF 
> CMS will be 
> decommissioned.
> 
> The master branch contains the actual website sources whereas the generated 
> website is served 
> from the asf-site branch. Hugo is being used as static website generator. 
> Content is written in 
> Markdown.
> 
> I had a look at Jena its site and it was quite easy to migrate Jena its site 
> to use Hugo as well. An 
> example of Hugo its output is (for demo purposes only) available on [2]. 
> These are the existing
> markdown files with a slightly changed header.
> 
> Moving to git can enlarge the visibility of how projects are functioning. 
> Next to that, new contributors 
> can simply create a pull request against the website repository if they find 
> anything they want to 
> improve. I've updated the 'Improve this page' to 'Edit this page' which will 
> open the GitHub webpage
> to edit the currently viewed page (currently returning a 404 because the 
> apache/jena-site repository 
> does not exist).
> 
> If the community is interested in this move what I propose:
> - Someone from the PMC to request a new git repository for the website (e.g. 
> jena-site) via [4]
> - Me creating the pull request from the repository I am temporarily using for 
> the website contents [5] 
> to the official jena-site repository
> - Create a Jenkins job to automatically build the site after changes happen 
> on the master branch.
> - When the pull request is reviewed and merged ask INFRA to move over from 
> the current svnpubsub
> to the gitpubsub approach and remove Jena from the Apache CMS.
> 
> Next to that Jena is also providing javadocs on its site. My proposal for 
> this is to serve them from a
> separate branch (e.g. release-docs). This way people who only want to clone 
> the site can clone the 
> the master branch using --single-branch and will not be bothered with cloning 
> all the javadocs.
> 
> All the URLs are still the same so the SEO score is not influenced in any way.
> 
> I'd like to hear everyone's opinion on this :)
> 
> Best regards,
> Roy
> 
> [1] https://github.com/apache/celix-site
> [2] http://jena.roylenferink.nl/
> [3] http://celix.apache.org/contributing/releasing.html
> [4] https://gitbox.apache.org/setup/newrepo.html
> [5] https://github.com/rlenferink/jena-site
> 

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