ieugen commented on a change in pull request #1: URL: https://github.com/apache/james-site/pull/1#discussion_r451277368
########## File path: README.adoc ########## @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ += Apache James website + +This repository is used for storing (some) content for https://james.apache.org[Apache James] website. + +It's also used to build and publish the website. + + +== How to build the website + +We use https://antora.org[Antora] as a tool to manage and generate the website. +We use https://gradle.org[Gradle] as a tool to drive / automate the tasks for generating, aggregating and publishing the website. + + +=== Why Antora? + +Antora lets us aggregate multiple documentation sources, across multiple versions and publish them as a single website. +Documentation for each Apache James component is kept and versioned alongside the code for it. + +=== Why Gradle? + +Gralde allows us to autoamte the tasks that we do when publishing a website. +We write gradle tasks for building and publishing the website. +We can run those tasks locally and inside our CI infrastructure: https://builds.apache.org[Apache Builds]. + +More specifically, we use Gradle to: + +* Download and install a specific version of https://nodejs.org[NodeJS] using https://github.com/node-gradle/gradle-node-plugin[Gradle Node Plugin] +* Install a local version of Antora +* Use a Gradle task to call build the website with Antora + +By using this specific flow, you only need `git`, `Java` and shell access to build the website. +All other dependencies are installed automatically by Gradle. +Even Gradle is downloaded and installed using the Gradle wrapper script. + + +== How to build the website + +[source,bash] +---- + # To build the website run + ./gradlew clean build + # The website is located here + cd doc-sites/build/site +---- Review comment: Just open the files. Antora URL work without a http server. It's a feature they advertise. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
