All, The ASF infra has advised deprecating and removing Roller support by 31st May 2023, our project blog is based on Roller.
Since my previous mail, I have been reviewing alternatives and options that are compliant with ASF policies and have looked at several other top-level Apache projects on how they manage, maintain, and publish their websites and blogs. For reference, some of that progress and options have been discussed at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24170 In order to have an ASF-compliant website and blog setup that would be more inclusive for our non-technical contributors, I've set up a proof-of-concept blog+website [1] using Docusauras (and configs from one of the ASF project websites, treat all the content outside of the blog as placeholder pages or lorem-ipsum) which is a static-site generator used by a dozen other Apache TLP websites [0] such as Apisix, Pulsar etc. This PoC has all most of our blog migrated (except the most 4-6 new ones), but pending migration of website content; and is currently integrated with a Netlify CMS which isn't as rich as WP but allows a committer/PMC to login via Github and manage the website+blog using a rich-text markdown editor [1][2] where editing/saving content created git commits pushed to Github. I'm also looking at other headless git-based CMSs that we can use. We may revisit any design/theme changes in the future, if there are no objections as the first iteration I propose to migrate all our project website content along with the Roller blog to this PoC and ask interested contributors to review and collaborate in an on-going basis as we need to migrate the blog by 31st May '23. I hope to update again regularly. [0] https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aapache+docusaurus.config.js&type=code [1] https://beautiful-pastelito-4eb422.netlify.app/blog/ [2] https://beautiful-pastelito-4eb422.netlify.app/admin/ Thanks and regards. ________________________________ From: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 15:07 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Cc: priv...@cloudstack.apache.org <priv...@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] CloudStack Website build and modernisation All, The ASF infra has advised recently that they're deprecating and removing Roller support, our project blog is based on Roller. Given this hasn't received any objections on this thread, I've spent some time in the last two months exploring options that solve most of our website and blog requirements. I explored several other top-level ASF project websites and found they had built their website/blog/article using something like Pelican, Hugo, Jekyll and recently Docusaurus. Among these Jekyll is the oldest and most stable platform that Github supports out of the box. Most of these TLP websites use a CI/CD based staging->publishing pipeline, using Github Actions, Gitpod, Netlify etc. Among these various options, Docusaurus seems to satisfy many of the requirements and integrates with Netlify CMS (to support our marketing contributors who aren't necessarily git-experts; https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/docusaurus/). If there aren't any objections I would like to set up a staging/beta website (as per https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Git+-+.asf.yaml+features#Git.asf.yamlfeatures-WebsitedeploymentserviceforGitrepositories this can be configured, using default it would be on cloudstack.staged.apach.org). Example TLP website source repos: Docusaurus: https://github.com/apache/apisix-website https://github.com/apache/shenyu-website https://github.com/apache/incubator-kvrocks-website Jekyll: https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-website https://github.com/apache/nuttx-website Hugo: https://github.com/apache/kyuubi-website https://github.com/apache/hop-website https://github.com/apache/dubbo-website Regards. ________________________________ From: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 14:57 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: [DISCUSS] CloudStack Website build and modernisation All, For 4.17.2.0 release publication on the website, I had to manually edit the website [0] build as I couldn't get middleman to work on either Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 (after spending a good hour to fix the ruby/gems build system). Any pointers on getting middleman/gems to work? As our website is dated, and in the past ASF infra has advised against setting up a dynamic CMS such as Wordpres for us I'm looking into alternatives that are ASF infra approved [1] and looking into Pelican and Jekyll. I'm also exploring what other ASF TLP websites are using for inspiration. I also found several apache projects such as apisix [2]<https://github.com/apache/apisix-website> having complex website build systems that use Netlify or other means of publishing websites. My high-level proposal is that we; (a) explore/investigate and migrate to a build system that is compliant with ASF infra policies and easy for anybody (esp PMCs and release managers) to setup/iterate locally, (b) integrate PR builds using Github actions or community CI/QA server (https://qa.cloudstack.cloud/) and, (c) we update the project website to use a modern library (something like Ant Design which we use with the ACS UI, or bootstrap, bulma, etc). Any suggestions, comments, or advice on this? [0] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-www [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Git+-+.asf.yaml+features#Git.asf.yamlfeatures-Staticwebsitecontentgeneration [2] https://github.com/apache/apisix-website Regards.
