Tim Williams wrote: > lewis john mcgibbney > <lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm back working on this and could do with some pointers. Please see below > > for some of the keys areas. > > > > I've looked closely at your references and read both the forrestbot "svn" > > workstage and forrestbot automated build and deploying documentation. I > > understand completely how I want this to work and your suggestion for the > > process of editing sourc, updating the Nutch site, then an additional > > forrestbot task would update the new /docs directory within our SVN > > nutch/branches/branch-1.4/docs diretcory. This would then enable devs to > > simply svn update and any documentation changes would be updated. It would > > also provide an excellent way of shipping the generated docs with our next > > release. The parts I am struggling to understand are below: > > > > David Crossley wrote: > >> lewis john mcgibbney wrote: > >> > > >> > As a project, we are wanting to ship core documentation with the > >> > software > >> > distribution. Currently the Nutch site documentation can be found here > >> > [1], > >> > however we would like to start shipping it with our branch-1.4 [2] under > >> > a > >> > new /docs directory. > >> > > >> > I know this is rather trivial and that there must be documentation on it > >> > somewhere but I have not been able to get my hands on it from the > >> > Forrest > >> > site yet! > >> > > >> > Thanks for any pointers. > >> > > >> > [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/nutch/site/ > >> > [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/nutch/branches/branch-1.4/ > >> > >> I gather that you mean the "generated" relevant docs for that version. > >> > >> You could use the "Forrestbot" as we do for our Forrest project docs. > >> > >> http://forrest.apache.org/howto-forrestbot-svn.html > >> How to deploy documentation with the Forrestbot "svn" workstage > >> > >> In our case we deploy our generated documentation to SVN forrest/site > >> which gets 'svn up' on people.apache.org to publish our website. > > > > I 'think' this is already done. I am waiting for a reply from the more > > experienced dev's to give me insight into how committed changes to the site > > source are actually fed through to nutch.apache.org. As I know of no other > > method for doing this other than the one your specified, I am going on the > > assumption that this is already in place.
Your generated docs are committed to the "site/publish/" directory. On the server it will be either an automated cron job by one or more of your committers doing 'svn up' in your nutch.a.o space (this is the old way like our Forrest project still does) or it will be under "svnpubsub". > >> [ snip] > >> The Nutch project could do that too for your website docs. > > > > Excellent, this is now my intention :0) > > > >> Then have another "Forrestbot buildfile" which deploys the relevant > >> docs to SVN nutch/branches/branch-1.4 > > > > How does this task get executed? If my comments as above are correct, this > > appears to be the main task at hand, therefore I am trying to find out where > > the additional buildfile is located and if this process can be triggered > > should there be any update to the site documentation e.g. a commit from the > > dev's. > > There's another build file, typically "publish.xml"[see our example 1] > that contains the details of where to publish it. You might find it > easier to start with a condensed version of our own publishing > instructions[2] or slightly more verbose[3] and expand your reading as > necessary from there... There's no "trigger" to update them, but > they're periodically pulled - it looks like your latest footer change, > for example, was already pulled - sorry, I don't know the detailed > mechanics of that arrangement. > > You've done plenty of research, ask away:) > --tim > > [1] - http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/site-author/publish.xml > [2] - > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/etc/publishing_our_site.txt > [3] - http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/How_to_publish_docs.html Sure, Thanks Tim. Also see the orginal document that i referenced at http://forrest.apache.org/howto-forrestbot-svn.html#follow Nutch needs to create your own buildfile. When each committer wants to publish their changes, they run the local forrestbot "build" as explained. If all is well then commit their source edits and then do the "deploy" step. -David
