All,
Per the discussion in the last couple Forum calls, Infrastructure is planning
to migrate the Forum website (www.cabforum.org) from Wordpress hosting over to
a GitHub-hosted static site. This email is to provide you with some information
about this transition and what it will mean for you.
*When will this change occur?**
*
We will be changing DNS at *15:00 Eastern today (7 February)*. This is being
done quickly in order to allow time to propagate the change before the weekend,
and season/test the change well before the face-to-face takes place.
*What change will we be making?**
*
The Infrastructure team will be changing DNS so that www.cabforum.org becomes a
pointer to our GitHub Pages hosted repository
(https://github.com/cabforum/cabforum.org/). Our DNS configuration is set so
that this change will propagate to our AWS DNS service within 60 seconds, and
then global DNS has a TTL (time-to-live) of ten minutes on the DNS record —
this means that within 20 minutes of making the change, the cutover to the new
site should be complete. Local DNS servers may take longer, however.
*Will that cause issues or outages?**
*
No. We will not be removing our previous website, so during the DNS cutover
access will go to the previous site until DNS updates. There may be a brief
window where the new website does not yet have a TLS certificate (owing to
domain validation rules); however, this period should be smaller than the
ten-minute TTL on DNS, meaning most users will not notice it.
*How do I use the new site?**
*
Instructions for authoring and publishing content are documented both on the
new website:
https://github.com/cabforum/cabforum.org/
And on the wiki:
https://wiki.cabforum.org/books/infrastructure/page/publishing-to-the-static-cabf-website
The short version is that users will now author website pages in Markdown, and
then commit them to the website repository in Git. To publish the changes,
create a pull request which will then be routed to the appropriate chair or
team for review and approval.
*Who should I contact if I have issues?**
*
You are welcome to contact any member of the Forum Infrastructure Subcommittee,
but in particular the following have volunteered as contacts for this change
and the publication process afterwards:
• Paul van Brouwershaven
• Jos Purvis
• Ben Wilson
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