On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:26 AM Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:39 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:21 PM Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 5:17 PM, <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > Continuing progress on converting to asciidoc. > >> > >> John, > >> > >> I can't tell what you're doing from these huge commits. > >> > > Don't worry, I can't tell either. > > Uh.... haha ha? > > No. Not cool. IPMC Members and interested Incubator community > members have the right and the responsibility to review your changes. > > I'm not sure I'm following. But I think you'll get it with the rest of the responses. > >> Are you changing any content? > >> > >> > > So far, here's the big changes I've done: > > > > - Split mentor guide into several parts (it was way too big) > > - Not converted proposal, and names. Not that I don't want to, but > haven't > > gotten to them yet. > > - Not converted the Eclipse and Maven release guides, need to find a > better > > home for those. I'll convert those if I can't find a better home. > > OK, let me confirm: There are no substantive changes intended. These > are only being reformatted, and the split of the mentor guide is > driven by technical necessity. > > >> If no data is being lost, how can we confirm that? > >> > > Word of mouth? Its going to require significant QA to verify. Many of > the > > links won't work, so need reviewers. > > Who's going to do this QA? How do you envision a before and after > check happening? Eyeballing changes on the scale of the Incubator > website is not workable. > > >> Does the method you're working on allow people to edit the site after > >> merely an SVN checkout, or would people have to install anything? > >> > >> > > The hope is to actually make it as simple as CMS, without requiring the > > overhead of infra running/maintaining CMS. Greg's team has been testing > > with github integration on the infra site, and I plan to test that here > as > > well. Basically, you would be able to edit online via github and commit, > > as long as you have write access to the repo. If you don't have write > > access a pull request would be created automatically. > > OK, glad to hear that. > > > This is all conceptual at this point, mind you. > > So is this just a prototype? In other words, it's a dry run and when > it's finished you'll present a plan for an orderly transition? > > I think so. So far, the bulk of the changes are applying regex based changes. I gave up trying to import the svn repo, may need to follow up with infra, so then we'll actually see the file changes when ready. I don't really want to lose history. > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
