Hey friends, The 5.0 alpha test build is out for testing! Great! Did you also have the chance to attend any of the latest town halls?
Ok, it is time to say where I am going with this short intro... Our friends from Constantia are working hard to help us spread the news and promote all the great work we do in this community. They open Jira tickets and PRs (not more than 1-2 per week, if any) to add announcements around events, new features, town hall replays, etc. on the Cassandra website. It requires a committer to do the review and push things through. The publishing process on the Cassandra website underwent certain transformations, and now it requires less effort (more on that below). I wanted to raise the visibility and ask for committers' involvement; if you see a ticket/PR and have 15 minutes, please, try to push it through. Currently, some PRs can take up to 10 days to get committed. Is it possible to cut that to 5 so we can spread any news on time? For example, what it took me to correct a page on the website the other week: We have pre-commit CI in GitHub for cassandra-website commits; for example, in CASSANDRA-18618 in my fork, the commits had checks like this: https://github.com/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra-website/actions/runs/5825288289/job/15796474462 And it generates a (just top-level) website in the _generated branch, e.g., https://github.com/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra-website/blob/18738-trunk_generated/content/_/development/how_to_commit.html I can take the raw URL of that and put it into raw.githack.com, e.g., https://raw.githack.com/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra-website/18738-trunk_generated/content/_/development/how_to_commit.html to preview the generated output. The rest is as before - we stage the changes and then push them live when Jenkins completes. (full details in the website readme, I will also be happy to guide anyone who is looking to lend a hand with this effort) Feel free to let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions to improve the process. Most discussions around the website happen in ASF Slack #cassandra-website. See you at the town hall on Thursday! :-) Best regards, Ekaterina
