OK - I will try to get something going this weekend.

Ralph

On Jun 28, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote:

> Hi Ralph,
> 
> Since there are no objections or suggestions other than what you have
> previously described, I suggest you proceed with how you would like this to
> be setup. For the time being I have created an infrastructure request to
> setup the website infrastructure [1]. Please feel free to modify that
> request or add details to it as you feel fit.
> 
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4982
> 
> Regards,
> Arvind Prabhakar
> 
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Arvind Prabhakar <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ralph Goers 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>> 
>>> I guess I've embedded the discussion on the web site in with this
>>> discussion and the OOM issues because how the documentation is generated is
>>> related to how it is displayed on the web site and the problems the build
>>> was/is having.
>>> 
>>> I am very tempted to go ahead and create a Sphinx-baesd web site starting
>>> with what you've already done, but I don't want to waste my time if that
>>> isn't what is wanted. If I did this it would be built by the CMS system and
>>> therefore would reside in something like
>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/flume/site/cms/trunk instead of the
>>> main source trunk.
>> 
>> 
>> My +1 and thanks for doing this. The website needs to be updated and
>> manageable so if you have the necessary cycles, then please do go ahead
>> with it.  Currently the site lives in [1] and uses basic xdoc for
>> structured content. Personally, I have no objections to continue using xdoc
>> or moving to a different tool if you feel would add more value.
>> 
>> [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/flume/site/
>> 
>> 
>>> However, it should be possible to capture the documentation into the
>>> release distribution if that is desired or required.
>> 
>> 
>> While some projects maintain most up to date documentation on the site,
>> IMO it is better to have versioned documentation that corresponds to the
>> release versions available right at the webstie.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Arvind Prabhakar
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Ralph
>>> 
>>> Re: [DISCUSS] documentation formats
>>> 
>>> On Jun 24, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Mike Percy wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I don't think there has been a discussion of how to build the website.
>>> If that is something you want to work on, you could always start a discuss
>>> thread about it. Sphinx has a ton of theming and format output options.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mike
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 

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