Matt

Nice.   That sounds really good to me.

Thanks
Joe
On Mar 26, 2015 9:05 PM, "Matt Gilman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> So I've been in contact with INFRA [1]. They've explained that we can ditch
> CMS entirely. By going this route we will no longer be able to edit the
> site online (through the Apache CMS tool) or have the staging capabilities.
> We would be committing the site into a svn/git repository and it would be
> available immediately (no staging). What this means is that the staging is
> going to be done by the person updating the site on the machine they are
> building on. Once they are comfortable they would deploy the updates by
> committing into the svn/git repository. The mechanics of this commit
> haven't been entirely worked out because I didn't know the particulars
> regarding CMS if we opted for an external build. I am thinking that it can
> be scripted or integrated into the build tool (grunt).
>
> Additionally, the NiFi maven build could also commit to this svn/git
> repository to automate the deployment of our user/admin/etc guides. There
> is currently some discussion about how to automate the deployment of
> component documentation at build time. Once that is decided, we could
> automate their deployment as well.
>
> Please let me know if there is any opposition to this approach. If I don't
> hear anything I am going to continue proceeding down this path.
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-9291
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I have not begun working on anything generated from the nifi build yet
> > (items identified in that ticket). My focus was on the website side of
> > things and I am currently in a holding pattern. It seems that the
> > referenced ticket is looking for a workaround in the meantime.
> >
> > Without knowing more, I was thinking that once everything was set up for
> > the website's external build we could use maven to commit the specified
> > artifacts (maybe something like [1]) into the website's SVN repository
> and
> > eliminate the need to generate a tarball that someone would manually have
> > to upload like we're doing today.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > [1] http://maven.apache.org/scm/maven-scm-plugin/checkin-mojo.html
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Matt
> >>
> >> Rgr that.  There are several tickets open which could be part of this
> >> work:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-445?jql=project%20%3D%20NIFI%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20text%20~%20%22website%22
> >>
> >> Which one are you working on?  Perhaps we can divide and conquer.
> >> There are a lot of updates in v1 that are not yet reflected in V2.
> >> Plus in V2 we need an updated image.  So perhaps folks will contribute
> >> if we can document the needs on the ticket.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Joe
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I've sent a couple emails which dev was CC'ed on. Since I wasn't
> hearing
> >> > anything there, I opened a JIRA ticket with them as well [1]. There
> has
> >> > been no activity on it yet. I was not aware of any INFRA chatroom.
> >> >
> >> > It sounds like when configured for an external build, we just need to
> >> > commit the website to the SVN repository. It's not clear however, if
> >> there
> >> > is still a staging phase or if it's immediately published. These are
> >> > questions I've asked in emails and in the ticket. The idea is that the
> >> > website and the application build would be separate but would commit
> to
> >> the
> >> > same repository so the documentation and the website can be can be
> >> updated
> >> > and deployed independently.
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-9291
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Matt, Aldrin,
> >> >>
> >> >> Just specifying you in particular since you were both actively
> engaged
> >> >> on it. But this is really for everyone:
> >> >>
> >> >> Can we reengage on the website v2 effort?  I believe the last thing I
> >> >> saw is that some important ticket or action was held up in INFRA.  I
> >> >> know that INFRA has a chatroom they are available in.  I think
> >> >> generally if they fall behind or something falls through the cracks
> >> >> they don't mind a ping.
> >> >>
> >> >> One thing with the change I know was part of the motivation was an
> >> >> easier/more direct path to making updates.  That part wasn't totally
> >> >> clear to me so will be curious to hear more about how that will work.
> >> >> As Dan or others have pointed out we need to get a more direct line
> >> >> from doc changes to getting them deployed.  And ideally we'd have the
> >> >> extensions all up there as well.
> >> >>
> >> >> Anyway - just want to get a view on where this is at.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks
> >> >> Joe
> >> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>

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