Nice work. Thanks Tomaz
> > On 31 Mar 2022, at 10:11 am, Tomaz Muraus <to...@tomaz.me> wrote: > > 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
