On May 5, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Speaking with Daniel on IRC this morning convinced > me that pushing for docs CMS adoption at this point > remains a hard sell. We both agreed that migrating > the main site first to the CMS would be better for all > concerned, so let's go that route for now and come back > to docs once everyone has had a chance to play with > the CMS on a production site that they actually care about. > > Since the site is a standard Anakia thingy, we have > migration tools that will convert the xml to markdown, > and I talked Daniel into coming up with a simple django > template for the site. That means we can use the CMS's > standard perl build stuff instead of the largeish collection > of java utils that generate the html- its a whole lot > simpler and faster in practice once the docs have been > migrated. > > We can leave any .html and .txt documents as-is, they > won't be changed by the build. Another thing I'd like > to see us do is move the download.cgi script out of the > doctree and into a separate cgi-bin/ dir, just so we can > actually practice what we preach ;-). The CMS fully > supports that. > > Anyhow if we can find consensus on this plan we can take > this back to dev@ and look for general approval.
Yes, this is the right way to go as a first step. +1 -- Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com :: @rbowen rbo...@apache.org
