I suppose it depends on whether or not we need to hack perl to use the
facility. If there is any alternative that doesn't use perl, then that
would be preferable.

Frankly, I've never been happy with the new MD based documentation, though
Clay has spent an inordinate amount of time tweaking it.


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Clay Leeds <the.webmaes...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Considering ASF-CMS is written in Perl, I wouldn't discount Perl
> out-of-hand. However, IMFO (sorry! Typo, but I could t bring myself to
> change it! ;-) I would think a solution blessed by infra@ would be
> acceptable, especially if they'll bless and/or maintain it!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Clay
>
> --
>
> "My religion is simple. My religion is kindness."
> - HH The Dalai Lama of Tibet
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Glenn Adams <gl...@skynav.com> wrote:
>
> I will -1 any proposal that involves using Perl.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Robert Meyer <rme...@hotmail.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is an update into my investigations on automating the release
>> process for FOP. As we're nearing release it looks as though version 2.0
>> will remain a manual process for the time being. That's not to say that it
>> will forever remain like that but at present unless a breakthrough occurs
>> or I receive some feedback from the infrastructure team, I don't currently
>> have the necessary knowledge on the Apache infrastructure (or Perl know
>> how) to achieve the desired result despite my efforts.
>>
>> During the time since my last message I found a solution using a markdown
>> extension. This appeared to fulfil all of our requirements and after
>> writing and testing one, it seemed to simply be a case of installing it.
>> Due to the nature of Apache's websites this was not something I could do
>> myself as we don't have control over the CMS. After raising a ticket with
>> the infrastructure team about doing this, I was pointed to another project
>> called Thrift. Their site appeared to provide tag replacement using
>> preexisting functionality found in the perl modules of the Apache CMS.
>>
>> After reading the documentation and experimenting I've reached somewhat
>> of an impasse due to a number of reasons. Firstly the documentation on
>> customizing these patterns is limited and covers only basic patterns.
>> Second, my own experience with Perl is lacking and as such makes it hard to
>> debug and understand some of the more complicated required modules and
>> sections of the CMS. Finally during my testing the errors I was getting
>> were extremely unhelpful and provide next to no clues as to where the
>> problem lay in my own code. Instead they point to the Perl CMS libraries
>> highlighting missing expected characters and at a guess incompatibilities
>> between the markdown we're using and what's expected by the pattern's own
>> subroutine.
>>
>> I have tried to follow and utilize the code found in the Thrift project
>> with little luck. I have posted on the infrastructure mailing list for help
>> but as of yet have not had any responses. I am guessing this is not a
>> commonly used feature and as such knowledge on the subject may be in short
>> supply. As such and without possibility of using the markdown extension
>> we're left with the manual process for the time being. I will keep an eye
>> out on the infrastructure page and prod them occasionally to see if I can
>> move things along.
>>
>> Apologies for the long e-mail but just wanted to keep you all updated.
>>
>> Robert Meyer
>>
>> > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:44:58 +0100
>> > From: bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com
>> > To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org
>> > Subject: Re: FOP Release Automation
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I certainly use the web interface when making small tweaks to the docs.
>> > As you know users occasionally report small mistakes that require minor
>> > tweaks. I'd like to streamline the updating of the website for release
>> > purposes but I don't want to disable/prevent the current web
>> > interface which works well when all you want to do is make a minor
>> > adjustment in response to a user e-mail.
>> >
>> > Rob is away this week, but he will continue the investigation into
>> > scripting the website updates when he returns.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the ideas so far, a few promising leads.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > On 30/05/2014 17:23, Clay Leeds wrote:
>> > > Agreed, ‘some’ people wouldn’t be happy with that. ;-)
>> > >
>> > > I wonder if the CMS Web interface could be extended to allow for a
>> few
>> > > keywords like FOP_VERSION, FOP_REVISION, FOP_BRANCH, etc.
>> > >
>> > > The CMS tool's WYSIWYG interface indicates it uses the Wysiwym
>> > > MarkDown Editor, which is extensible:
>> > >
>> > > https://web.archive.org/web/20110121060932/http://wmd-editor.com/
>> > >
>> > > (site’s down & hasn’t been updated since 2011)...
>> > >
>> > > or
>> > >
>> > > https://code.google.com/p/wmd/
>> > >
>> > > We might still need to do some ANT hanky panky, but at least if we
>> > > could leverage WMD’s extensibility it would help us get where we’re
>> > > trying to go?
>> > >
>> > > Clay
>> > >
>> > > On May 30, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Robert Meyer <rme...@hotmail.co.uk
>> > > <mailto:rme...@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote:
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >> I like the simplicity of your idea, but the web interface is not so
>> > >> easy to dismiss unfortunately.
>> > >>
>> > >> If you do have a copy with those tags in, if any changes are made on
>> > >> the web interface then that copy would become out of date.
>> > >>
>> > >> We could always shutdown the web interface, but I don't think too
>> > >> many people would be happy with that ;-)
>> > >>
>> > >> Regards,
>> > >>
>> > >> Robert
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > >> From: simonsteiner1...@gmail.com <mailto:simonsteiner1...@gmail.com>
>> > >> To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org
>> > >> <mailto:fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org>
>> > >> Subject: RE: FOP Release Automation
>> > >> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:48:15 +0100
>> > >>
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >> Simple way is to store docs inside fop repo:
>> > >>
>> > >> Fop/docs/index.markdown
>> > >>
>> > >> Inside markdown file you reference ant properties eg:
>> > >> ${version}
>> > >>
>> > >> Then you call which does ant expandproperties and calls markdown to
>> > >> html tool:
>> > >> ant docs
>> > >>
>> > >> Then you call which does a zip, scp and unzip of html files to web
>> > >> server:
>> > >> ant upload-docs
>> > >>
>> > >> This method doesn’t support web interface of editing files but I
>> > >> don’t see how this is really needed.
>> > >> If I submit a patch to fop it should also contain doc changes rather
>> > >> than having separate repo and patch for that.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks
>> > >>
>> > >> *From:*Robert Meyer [mailto:rme...@hotmail.co.uk]
>> > >> *Sent:*30 May 2014 14:05
>> > >> *To:*fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org
>> > >> <mailto:fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org>
>> > >> *Subject:*RE: FOP Release Automation
>> > >>
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >> After investigating your suggestions Clay I have found that
>> svn-hooks
>> > >> can't be used for the purpose we require unfortunately as it may
>> lead
>> > >> to problems with how SVN operates and also may have some unexpected
>> > >> results with files being committed. This is stated in the
>> > >> documentation under "Creating Repository Hooks" highlighted in the
>> > >> warning red box further down:
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61b/fa09/docs/svn-book-html-chunk/svn.reposadmin.create.html
>> > >> <
>> http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Ecs61b/fa09/docs/svn-book-html-chunk/svn.reposadmin.create.html
>> >
>> > >>
>> > >> Pascal, I agree that the process is fairly straightforward, but I
>> > >> have been asked to automate this further so am just looking into
>> > >> ideas presently.
>> > >>
>> > >> I think a possible way forward then would be to use your suggestion
>> > >> Pascal of placing the versioned docs for the site inside the FOP
>> > >> repository for their associated version. These can then be
>> referenced
>> > >> using the svn-externals from the main site repository.
>> > >>
>> > >> In addition to this, the main site files (which would need to be
>> > >> updated) could contain tags for the last three versions which would
>> > >> be replaced using Clay's markdown pre-processor suggestion. The
>> > >> pre-processor would replace the tags with values stored in a
>> > >> properties file in the main site repository.
>> > >>
>> > >> To create a release, the user would need to update the svn-external
>> > >> references to account for the new version and update the properties
>> > >> file for tag replacement. When the properties file is pushed it will
>> > >> be read by the custom markdown pre-processor and display the new
>> > >> version when rendered.
>> > >>
>> > >> Those two stages could be done using a single script to simplify
>> > >> things further, but the main complication is getting the markdown
>> > >> pre-processor working. From looking at this page:
>> > >>
>> > >> http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html#markdown
>> > >>
>> > >> I am guessing we use PyPy (Python Markdown) which supports
>> > >> extensions, so I will look at this shortly to try out a small
>> example
>> > >> and investigate the feasibility of doing this. There is also the
>> > >> matter of updating the versioned documents for each FOP when a new
>> > >> version is released, but maybe this could be done with the
>> > >> pre-processor as well.
>> > >>
>> > >> Anyway, let me know what you think.
>> > >>
>> > >> Regards,
>> > >>
>> > >> Robert
>> > >
>> >
>>
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