Hi VCL community, I noticed VCL is still serving its site from SVN with help of the Apache CMS. At the Apache Celix project we decided to move away from the CMS and move towards git for serving our website [1]. This because the CMS was introduced in 2010 and is currently not accepting any new projects. With the move to e.g. a static site generator as Hugo we're sure that we still can update the site when the ASF CMS will be decommissioned.
The master branch contains the actual website sources whereas the generated website is served from the asf-site branch. Hugo is being used as static website generator. Content is written in Markdown. I had a look at VCL its site and it was quite do-able to migrate VCL its site to use Hugo as well. An example of Hugo its output is (for demo purposes only) available on [2]. These are the existing markdown files with a slightly changed header. Moving to git can enlarge the visibility of how projects are functioning. Next to that, new contributors can just create a pull request against the website repository if they find anything they want to improve. An 'Edit on GitHub' button can be added as well to the site, e.g. an example of a page on the Celix website [3] If the community is interested in this move what I propose: - Someone from the PMC to request a new git repository for the website (e.g. vcl-site) via [4] - Me creating the pull request from the repository I am temporarily using for the website contents [5] to the official vcl-site repository - Create a Jenkins job to automatically build the site after changes happen on the master branch. - When the pull request is reviewed and merged ask INFRA to move over from the current svnpubsub to the gitpubsub approach and remove VCL from the Apache CMS. All the URLs are still the same so the SEO score is not influenced in any way. I'd like to hear everyone's opinion on this :) Best regards, Roy [1] https://github.com/apache/celix-site [2] http://vcl.roylenferink.nl/ [3] http://celix.apache.org/contributing/releasing.html [4] https://gitbox.apache.org/setup/newrepo.html [5] https://github.com/rlenferink/vcl-site
