On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 at 08:04, Hervé Boutemy <hbout...@apache.org> wrote:

> Attic website is currently in svn:
>   https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/attic/site/
>
> with Git read-only mirror
>   https://github.com/apache/attic-site/
>
> we are facing 2 issues:
> - viewvc is not working any more on svn, which makes svn even less usable
> nowadays than ever before: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/attic
> - people propose PRs on Git as it is common knowledge nowadays (who
> remembers
> how to do Jira issue with svn patch attached? who takes time to do it?)
>
>
> I'd like that we switch to Git read-write for site's source maintenance
> particularly the xdocs source
>   https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/attic/site/xdocs/
>
>
> and choose what we do with the html output in doc: either keep it in svn
> for
> svnpubsub or switch it to Git branch for GitPubSub (or any name this
> mechanism
> has nowadays)
> = https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/attic/site/docs/
> What is important to me is to split the source xdocs from the generated
> HTML
> docs to clarify: whatever we choose should not impact user workflow, then
> I
> think we should do what is easiest from a migration perspective
>
>
> WDYT?
>

Personally I would be in favour of moving the website to a more supported
toolset (markdown & Jekyll or Pelican?) and away from ant/anakia/xdocs and
split out the two "flagged" parts that the banner stuff relies on

Niall



>
> Regards,
>
> Hervé
>
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