And it's live - https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2022/03/30/website-updates.html
------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 at 12:05 AM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@tomaz.me> wrote: > After spending way too many hours on this, I finally managed to get most > things upgraded and working - https://libcloud.staged.apache.org. > > This includes: > > * Upgrading Jekyll to latest stable versions (4.2) > > * Upgrading Ruby to latest stable version (3.1) > > * Upgrading Bootstrap theme to v3.3.7 and jQuery to v3.3.1. Sadly upgrading > to Bootstrap 5 would be too much work (pretty much a complete rewrite). > > Same goes for upgrading to jQuery v3.6.0 - the asset compressor we use is old > and crashes when trying to compress / minify latest version of jQuery. I know > there are some known security issues with older jQuery versions, but since > jQuery is used in a very limited fashion (no user input is ever passed to > jQuery code) and out website is purely static content (no dynamic server side > component), I think those shouldn't affect us. > > * Docker image which handles installing all the dependencies and the > environment which should make contributing and building the website locally > very easy. > > As a "bonus" also added a new dark mode / theme. Theme still needs some love, > but it should be a start. > > Long term we can also figure out automatic website build + deploy on push to > main branch (I don't think we can utilize ASF build infrastructure since we > depend on custom Ruby plugins with C extensions). > > Staging website: https://libcloud.staged.apache.org/ > > Source code: https://github.com/apache/libcloud-site/tree/asf-staging > > I hope to have it all finished and deployed this weekend (and hopefully after > that it will serve us well again for many years - unless of course someone > wants to contribute a new and fresh design / theme). > > ------- Original Message ------- > > On Monday, March 28th, 2022 at 7:49 PM, Tomaz Muraus to...@tomaz.me wrote: > > > It turns out that creating a working Dockerfile is a massive pain, because > > the Ruby and Jekyll version used are very old and unsupported and this > > brings up all kind of issues. > > > > I did manage to get it working in the end with some hacks and changes in > > the Jekyll configuration > > (https://github.com/apache/libcloud-site/blob/asf-staging/Dockerfile), but > > at this point it may actually make the most sense to try to redo the whole > > website from scratch using a new version of Jekyll and Ruby. > > > > I did try an incremental upgrade, but that didn't work out since there are > > tons of breaking changes and we also rely on custom plugins. > > > > ------- Original Message ------- > > > > On Sunday, March 27th, 2022 at 9:15 PM, Tomaz Muraus to...@tomaz.me wrote: > > > > > I just wanted to give everyone a heads up - I'm working on moving the > > > website source code from svn to git (finally!). > > > > > > New website repo location will be - > > > https://github.com/apache/libcloud-site/ > > > (https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/libcloud-site.git). > > > > > > ASF website publishing infra does support building the website > > > automatically on push using jekyll, but that doesn't seem to work with > > > our repo. > > > > > > I didn't dig in too much, but I assume it's likely related to old jekyll > > > version + extensions we depend on. That means that for the time being, we > > > still need to build the website locally before pushing it to the repo. > > > > > > I will let everyone know when it's fully set up and working. > > > > > > I still need to do the following: > > > > > > - [ ] Update readme with how to contribute website changes (info on how > > > to utilize staging branch, how to generate the website, etc.) > > > > > > - [ ] Add Dockerfile used for generating the website (since sadly we > > > still rely on ancient version of jekyll and Ruby which is a pain to > > > install without rvm, etc.) > > > > > > - [ ] Update actual website and add information about the new website > > > repository > > > > > > Some reference links: > > > > > > - > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Git+-+.asf.yaml+features#Git.asf.yamlfeatures-Staticwebsitecontentgeneration > > > > > > - https://infra.apache.org/project-site.html
