Good questions! Here's how the uima website publishing works: The website works by having a hook that watches for svn commits to the .../uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/ folder, which it copies to the website when svn changes.
Moving things to an archive spot that was still accessible by the website could be done, just by moving things to another svn spot, not under the watchful eye of the above hook. You can still refer to those spots using the http interface to the svn, say something like: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/site/trunk/uima-website-archive/x/y/z etc. It would be important that these be lightly loaded links, I think; and this is likely the case for older archived releases. Doing this would reduce the MB consumed on the apache site web server. This is (occasionally) a goal, although I haven't heard any complaints from Infra about this recently - maybe disk space is not an issue anymore. Another goal is to reduce the download size when checking out the uima-website for maintenance. By having the archived stuff be under .../uima/site/trunk/uima-website-archive instead of .../uima-website, we remove the extra stuff from the normal maintenance download footprint of the website. Moving the items under docs/d might break url links; this can be mitigated by using the "current" symbolic link, as several projects already are doing. -Marshall On 3/30/2017 3:52 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > Hi, > > hm... > > $ du -sh uima-website > 1,3G uima-website > > $ du -sh * > 4,0K HOWTO > 8,0K build-ip-clearances.xml > 8,0K build.xml > 710M docs > 888K lib > 152K velocity.log > 23M xdocs > > I agree: at some point we should consider what to do with the old docs. > > How does the UIMA website work? Could we have a separte folder in SVN that > is served via the webserver but that would not be part of the site that we > check out and update on a regular basis? > > -- Richard > >> On 29.03.2017, at 16:36, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> From time to time (in the past at least) we have been asked to "delete" >> things >> off of the uima website to make it smaller. >> >> The main size consumers on the website are the docs/d/ folders - there's one >> per >> (somewhat recent) release. >> >> Since transitioning to the svn way of publishing, it strikes me that we could >> shrink our website footprint by taking advantage of the svn storage, >> something >> like this: >> >> 1) For older release, unlikely to be referenced frequently if at all, delete >> them. They will disappear from svn "HEAD", but still be there in older >> revisions. >> >> 2) put up a new page (archived docs) which provides instructions on how to >> find >> the older versions in >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/site/trunk/uima-website/docs/d/ etc. >> >> (optionally), we could put in hyperlinks to the svn revision having the top >> folder in the viewsvn api style. >> >> Is this worth doing? >> >> >> Any volunteers :-) ? >> >> -Marshall
