On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote:
> +1 > > I had the same thought when I built Calcite’s site based on jekyll > (actually cloned from Orc’s site). Thanks for making this template — I’m > sure it will be helpful to new projects. > > We should make it clear that it is optional, of course. But when Calcite > entered the incubator there were entirely too many choices (and > opportunities to make mistakes). The whole svnpubsub vs cms question, for > instance, delayed our web site by about 6 months because we weren’t sure > whether we could backtrack once we had made a decision. So I think it would > be useful if there were some default choices to get incubator projects off > and running quickly. > Exactly, it will be optional, and the goal is to document exactly what a new project (and sometimes a completely new community) needs to do to get the website up and running, including the whole workflow, and what to request from infra. > > I also think it would be useful to provide a template for maven/java based > projects. There would be a pom.xml, module/pom.xml and > module/org/apache/foo/Foo.java, and just enough content in the pom.xml to > be able to make a release by typing “mvn release:prepare … mvn > release:perform”. If anyone is interested I’ll do it. > I believe this is already available if your "parent pom" inherit from "apache pom". See: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/pom/tags/apache-17/ > > Luciano, Did you have a place in mind to put your template site? I think > it would need to be in an apache project, not in github, so that any > podling can import it without worrying about IP contamination. > > I was thinking on a git repository owned by incubator. It would be mirrored in github mostly for the simplification of collaboration via PR. When a new projects comes in, it would request a new website git as a fork from the template, so that in the future it would be able to cherry-pick enhancements or fixes from upstream. > Julian > > > Thoughts ? -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
