Several projects are using Jekyll to emulate the github style site processing. As an example: http://drill.apache.org/
THis is still a bit inconvenient in that the gh-pages branch has to be built using jekyll and then checked into SVN, but it does work pretty easily. The process pretty much has to be manual because of the access required to check things into SVN, but there is nothing else that requires manual intervention. This approach allows web site pull requests and reviews. You can even preview the site using github. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Jay Vyas <jayunit100.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like the idea. Anything to avoid requiring svn to update project sites. > > But... Iirc I started a similar thread before and was told that forwarding > Apache.org to github static site was against the rules ?Maybe I > misinterpreted ... > > > > > On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:06 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > All, > > > > Has any thought been put into leveraging GitHub pages for project > > documentation, static site hosting? A lot of www.apache.org is simple > > static content, as are project pages. Since a lot of projects are now > using > > git, and we mirror projects in GitHub, perhaps we can help the individual > > projects maintain their site's static content by simply committing to a > > gh-pages branch for their project? > > > > Since it's just static content which is still hosted and controlled by > ASF, > > but simply placed in a way that GitHub can render it from the mirrors, I > > don't think there's too many issues of concern, but wasn't sure if > > anybody's put any thought into it. I know it would certainly be easier > for > > some projects than using the existing CMS system with SVN (especially > those > > otherwise developing exclusively with Git). > > > > It might "just work" today, but I haven't tried it. I'd be willing to > work > > with INFRA to help experiment with it, though (especially if we wanted to > > try out the CNAME feature). > > > > More info: https://pages.github.com/ > > > > -- > > Christopher L Tubbs II > > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii >
