I'll take this on as my nugget of current Mahout work at the moment. I know nothing about the Apache CMS back-story beyond what you have quoted here.
Grant/Robin, you indicate you spoke to infra last year about this. Before I bug them again and repeat the conversation: do we know anything about this new CMS system and what we're "supposed" to do? On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote: > ASF seems to say various things :) > > I previously transcribed what I found into > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-804 comments, but to cut > to the conclusion: > > """Found some Mahout backstory, > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Old-Site-td1406298.html > This cites > https://cwiki.apache.org/CWIKI/#Index-Canweusetheautoexportsiteaspartofourmainwebsite%3F > which in turn suggests that auto-exported sites will be disabled > around Nov 2011: > > "Projects who do currently use Confluence as a CMS and then use the > AutoExported tool to create a website should make plans to convert to > another publishing tool, such as the new CMS system. It is estimated > that crontab jobs containing rsyncs of autoexport sites will be > removed around November 2011 (Likely during ApacheCon)" > > "Can we use the mirror of the autoexport site as our main web site? > Yes (until Around November 2011). You can either name the home page > for your site "index", so that it will load by default, or add a > index.html to the root website folder that will redirect to the export > folder. BUT note the caveats above, no more new autoexported websites > effective 1/11/2011 and existing sites to be phased out by November > 2011." > "It is estimated that crontab jobs containing rsyncs of autoexport > sites will be removed around November 2011 (Likely during ApacheCon)." > """" > > That's in a couple of weeks, right? > > Anyone here familiar with the "new CMS system"? Nothing obvious in > http://www.apache.org/dev/infrastructure.html maybe more in > http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-mail.html#lists somewhere. > > Note that search engines are excluded by > https://cwiki.apache.org/robots.txt from the /confluence/ area ... so > if the above threat/promise goes through, pages like > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Algorithms will > remain unobtainable in search engines, and their uglier derrivatives > like https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/algorithms.html will be frozen > and stale. > > Is the simplest short-term stopgap for someone else to re-run the auto > exporter, if the crontab is killed next month? > > Dan >
