Team, Here is some relevant notes on possible approaches to create project 
website. Looks like direct sync from git isn't available and we might have to 
resort to svnpubsub or cms.

Regards
Srikanth Sundarrajan

> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:30:08 -0500
> Subject: Re: How to make an incubator website?
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> 
> There are 2 primary options for project websites.
> 
> 1. Use the Apache CMS. this uses the buildbot system and allows for a
> staging site and direct page editing. Example of it in use is the
> Apache.org website.
> 
> 2. Svnpubsub. This places your website content in svn and you can generate
> it however you like (raw html, jekyll, middleman, maven, etc.) and on
> commit it will publish the site. Example of a podling using this is Aurora.
> 
> Your mentors can request website setup at [1] and someone from the infra
> team will get everything setup. If you have any questions please let me know
> 
> -Jake
> 
> 
> [1]: https://infra.apache.org/officers/webreq
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I seem to be very confused by the documentation for Apache CMS,
> > the incubator website, and SVN.
> >
> >
> > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/sites.html says:
> >
> > > The published site for each podling should conform to this URL space:
> > > http://podlingname.incubator.apache
> > >
> > > The website lives in the following directory on people.apache.org:
> > > /www/podlingname.apache.org/content/
> >
> >
> > https://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html#svn
> >
> > says
> >
> > > Easiest way to get setup quickly is to use the boilerplate site setup.
> > It has the right files in the right structure. Just export it and add it to
> > svn.
> >
> > > svn export https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/template site
> > > svn add site
> > > svn ci site -m "initial setup for the cms"
> >
> >
> >
> > All of these documentations use incomplete URIs like "In SVN", so I
> > have no idea about what is the SVN space I am meant to modify.
> >
> >
> > I was able to follow the above and add "site" to
> > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/taverna/ - but I believe
> > this is totally the wrong place, because nothing appears on
> >
> > http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/
> >
> >
> > SSH to people.apache.org reveals no folder for Taverna in /www
> >
> > stain@minotaur:/www$ ls -al *taverna*
> > ls: *taverna*: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >
> > Any hints or suggestions on how to improve this documentation? Is some
> > more bootstrapping required through INFRA and our mentors?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
> > School of Computer Science
> > The University of Manchester
> > http://soiland-reyes.com/stian/work/ http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
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