please add a nightly build (distribution) location too to the site. thanks, Amila.
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 . 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