OFBiz is now using the new website and releases distribution mechanism

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

I am please to announce that OFBiz is now using for its website and releases the new distribution mechanism (SvnPubSub) offered by the ASF.
This was a required step that the ASF asked the OFBiz PMC to perform before the end of the year and it is now completed; the projects that have already performed the migration (with OFBiz) are:

https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/

To all committers: from now on, as soon as you update the content of the OFBiz website files in svn (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/site) they will be immediately published in our site: http://ofbiz.apache.org
I have already updated the instructions in our svn page: it is no more necessary to ssh to people.a.o and then do the update.
Therefore is important that the changes to the official web site are discussed and approved by the PMC: if you are going to update the site with relevant information (new pages or paragraphs, links to external sites, etc...) please make sure they are discussed and approved before committing them.

The next big step will be to fix all the links from the OFBiz site to Confluence: by the end of the year we will have to remove them, but we can keep a direct link to the Confluence (aka "OFBiz Wiki"); the pages that are currently in Confluence that we consider "website pages" (and we want to durectlylink to them) will have to be actually converted into static html pages and committed to:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/site

But we will discuss this effort in a separate thread; we have a few months before the end of the year.

Regards,

Jacopo

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:29 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> The next big step will be to fix all the links from the OFBiz site to Confluence: by the end of the year we will have to remove them

I mean: remove the links not the pages.

Jacopo

[Adrian Crum-3]

Thank you for taking care of this.

-Adrian

On 3/11/2012 9:29 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> I am please to announce that OFBiz is now using for its website and releases the new distribution mechanism (SvnPubSub) offered by the ASF.
> This was a required step that the ASF asked the OFBiz PMC to perform before the end of the year and it is now completed; the projects that have already performed the migration (with OFBiz) are:
>
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/
>
> To all committers: from now on, as soon as you update the content of the OFBiz website files in svn (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/site) they will be immediately published in our site: http://ofbiz.apache.org
> I have already updated the instructions in our svn page: it is no more necessary to ssh to people.a.o and then do the update.
> Therefore is important that the changes to the official web site are discussed and approved by the PMC: if you are going to update the site with relevant information (new pages or paragraphs, links to external sites, etc...) please make sure they are discussed and approved before committing them.
>
> The next big step will be to fix all the links from the OFBiz site to Confluence: by the end of the year we will have to remove them, but we can keep a direct link to the Confluence (aka "OFBiz Wiki"); the pages that are currently in Confluence that we consider "website pages" (and we want to durectlylink to them) will have to be actually converted into static html pages and committed to:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/site
>
> But we will discuss this effort in a separate thread; we have a few months before the end of the year.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacopo
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
> Therefore is important that the changes to the official web site are discussed and approved by the PMC: if you are going to update
> the site with relevant information (new pages or paragraphs, links to external sites, etc...) please make sure they are discussed
> and approved before committing them.

Do you think the PMC should also approve XSDs updates? After all they are just an update of a commit already done in repo.

Jacques

[Jacopo Cappellato-4]

I don't think it is necessary (if the update has been already discussed);and just to clarify my words: I was not saying that a formal process is now required to publish website updates (if we want to do this we will have to discuss this before) but only that any update to the website has to be done carefully because it becomes immediately "official": the committers (and PMC members) should carefully review each commit for the website and the author of the commits should ask before committing something that could be questionable.

Jacopo


On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
>> Therefore is important that the changes to the official web site are discussed and approved by the PMC: if you are going to update
>> the site with relevant information (new pages or paragraphs, links to external sites, etc...) please make sure they are discussed
>> and approved before committing them.
>
> Do you think the PMC should also approve XSDs updates? After all they are just an update of a commit already done in repo.
>
> Jacques

[Jacques Le Roux]

OK Jacopo,

It's clear to me now

Jacques

From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>

>I don't think it is necessary (if the update has been already discussed);and just to clarify my words: I was not saying that a
>formal process is now required to publish website updates (if we want to do this we will have to discuss this before) but only that
>any update to the website has to be done carefully because it becomes immediately "official": the committers (and PMC members)
>should carefully review each commit for the website and the author of the commits should ask before committing something that could
>be questionable.
>
> Jacopo
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>
>> From: "Jacopo Cappellato" <[hidden email]>
>>> Therefore is important that the changes to the official web site are discussed and approved by the PMC: if you are going to
>>> update
>>> the site with relevant information (new pages or paragraphs, links to external sites, etc...) please make sure they are
>>> discussed
>>> and approved before committing them.
>>
>> Do you think the PMC should also approve XSDs updates? After all they are just an update of a commit already done in repo.
>>
>> Jacques
>
>