I think we should be able to modify at least certain pages independent of the latest release. For example, the home page http://axis.apache.org/ looks so dull & incomplete. Chanaka had prepared nicer looking pages with the projects logos and so on. We certainly need to update that page at least.
Thanks Azeez On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Andreas Veithen <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 19:16, Nadir Amra <[email protected]> wrote: > > So then updates to the site can only be done on a release boundary? > > The basic constraint is to maintain consistency between the published > site and the site sources. In practice this indeed means that the site > is only refreshed during a release. However: > > * One can do manual edits to the generated site, provided that the > site sources are also updated (so that the updates are not lost when > the site is regenerated). I did that with the Axis2 site in order to > fix a couple of broken links after the 1.5.3 release. Unfortunately > people tend to forget to update the site sources, leaving it to other > people to clean up the mess when doing a new release (see r1042149 and > r1042163). > * Technically, nothing would prevent us from republishing the site > from the trunk without doing a release. However, this means that the > site may contain information (e.g. in the Javadoc) that is not > applicable to any release. Also, I don't know any project at the ASF > that does this. > > > If true, that does not seem too flexible, does it? > > Maven sites are fine for some type of documentation (such as Javadoc, > reference documentation or information that doesn't change much), but > it is definitely not flexible enough for some type of content (e.g. > tutorials). Some time ago there was a discussion about this and the > consensus is that we need something else (which would be in addition > to the Maven sites, at least during a transition phase) that would > allow to publish content with a simpler procedure. At that time, > Confluence (with the auto-export plugin) was the only CMS available > and I like that system, although it's not perfect. However, the future > of this at the ASF is uncertain because the infra team would like to > get rid of it in favor of their own custom built solution. > > > Nadir Amra > > > > > > Andreas Veithen <[email protected]> wrote on 12/27/2010 11:04:50 > AM: > > > >> From: Andreas Veithen <[email protected]> > >> To: [email protected] > >> Date: 12/27/2010 11:07 AM > >> Subject: Re: Axis Website update > >> > >> The changes for AXIS2-4912 were applied to the site sources in the > >> trunk. That was after I prepared the 1.5.4 release. The site currently > >> online is the one generated from the 1.5.4 release and therefore > >> doesn't contain these changes. The normal way to get them published is > >> with the next release. If that is 1.6, then the changes will be > >> included automatically. If the next release is 1.5.5, then the site > >> changes need to be merged to the 1.5 branch first (I did that for > >> 1.5.4, and I plan to do the same for 1.5.5, if there is another > >> release from the 1.5 branch). > >> > >> Andreas > >> > >> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 06:51, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Chanaka had submitted a few site patches, and I think these have been > >> > committed to the SVN. If so, why hasn't the site > http://axis.apache.org > >> > still been updated? > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Afkham Azeez > >> > Senior Software Architect & Senior Manager; WSO2, Inc.; > http://wso2.com, > >> > > >> > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > >> > email: [email protected] cell: +94 77 3320919 > >> > blog: http://blog.afkham.org > >> > twitter: http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez > >> > linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez > >> > > >> > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > >> > > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- *Afkham Azeez* Senior Software Architect & Senior Manager; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, * * *Member; Apache Software Foundation; **http://www.apache.org/*<http://www.apache.org/> * email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* * * *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* * *
