The Nutch site is already based on svnpubsub. On 8 February 2012 12:40, Lewis John Mcgibbney <lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > Can anyone comment where we lie with this? > > I really don't have a clue. > > Thanks > > Lewis > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> > Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:26 PM > Subject: Mandatory svnpubsub migration by Jan 2013 > To: Apache Infrastructure <infrastruct...@apache.org> > > > [PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS POST! DIRECT ALL FURTHER > INQUIRIES TO infrastruct...@apache.org] > > FYI: infrastructure policy regarding website hosting has > changed as of November 2011: we are requiring all websites > and dist/ dirs to be svnpubsub or ASF CMS backed by the end of 2012. > If your PMC has already met this requirement congratulations, > you can ignore the remainder of this post. > > As stated on http://www.apache.org/dev/project-site.html#svnpubsub > we are migrating our webserver infrastructure to 100% svnpubsub > over the course of 2012. If your site does not currently make > use of this technology, it is time to consider a migration effort, > as rsync-based sites will be PERMANENTLY FROZEN in Jan 2013 due > > to infra disabling the hourly rsync jobs. While we recommend > migrating to the ASF CMS [0] for Anakia based or Confluence based > sites, and have provided tooling [1] to help facilitate this, > we are only mandating svnpubsub (which the CMS uses itself). > > svnpubsub is a client-server system whereby a client watches an > svn working copy for relevant commit notifications from the svn > server. It subsequently runs svn up on the working copy, bringing > in the relevant changes. sites that use static build technologies > that commit the build results to svn are naturally compatible with > svnpubsub; simply file a JIRA ticket with INFRA to request a > migration: any commits to the resulting build tree will be > > instantly picked up on the live site. > > > The CMS is a more elaborate system based on svnpubsub which > provides a webgui for convenient online editing. Dozens of > sites have already successfully deployed using the CMS and > are quite happy with the results. The system is sufficiently > flexible to accommodate a wide variety of choices regarding > templating systems and storage formats, but most sites have > standardized on the combination of Django and Markdown. Talk > to infra if you would like to use the CMS in this or some other > fashion, we'll see what we can do. > > > NOTE: the policy for dist/ dirs for managing project releases is > similar. We have setup a dedicated svn server for handling this, > please contact infra when you are ready to start using it. > > > HTH > > > [0]: http://www.apache.org/dev/cms > [1]: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/conversion-utilities/ > > > > > -- > *Lewis* > > -- * *Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ http://www.digitalpebble.com http://twitter.com/digitalpebble
