On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 at 09:24, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 18:36, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 17:51, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 09:44, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 at 01:10, Niall Pemberton <
> niall.pember...@gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > I have created a PoC to move the current Attic site generation from
> > >> XDOC &
> > >> > Forrest to Markdown & Jekyll:
> > >> >   https://github.com/niallkp/attic-jekyll-site
> > >> >
> > >> > Each project has a YAML file with details about it and its
> retirement
> > >> and
> > >> > that drives everything:
> > >> >   - generates a project page
> > >> >   - updates the Process Tracking Page
> > >> >   - updates the menu/list of projects in the Attic
> > >> >   - Generates the "flag" files for the Attic Banner on the site &
> Wiki
> > >> >
> > >> > At the moment it is pretty much functionally complete, but I've put
> a
> > >> TODO
> > >> > list in the README.md or the project:
> > >> >    https://github.com/niallkp/attic-jekyll-site/blob/main/README.md
> > >> >
> > >> > Thoughts/feedback welcome
> > >>
> > >> Looks good, and could be worth pursuing, but there are some missing
> > >> features that are essential for a full evaluation.
> > >>
> > >> There needs to be an action to generate the output so it can be
> checked.
> > >> Ideally so the site can be viewed directly.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I have manually published the generated site here for now, so you can
> have
> > > a look:
> > >     https://niallkp.github.io/
> > >
>
> Thanks, very useful.
>
> > There were no "In Progress" projects (i.e. project's whose move to Attic
> is
> > not complete), so I've just added the data files for Gora & Mnemonic.
>
> I see you have also added ODE, which has non-standard CWiki names; useful.
>

I need to double check, but I think I've added all the project data files
except the two "revived" projects (Ambari & XMLBeans?).


> > The main bits of the site are generated from the project data files. Just
> > to highlight a few of the generated pages:
> >   - The Tracking page: https://niallkp.github.io/tracking.html
> >   - Project Pages e.g. Gora https://niallkp.github.io/projects/gora.html
> >   - The list of projects on each page
> >   - The site flag files are generated in "/flagged/site": e.g.
> > https://niallkp.github.io/flagged/site/any23.txt
>
> These don't need any content; also at present Puppet expects directories.
>
> >   - The cwiki flag files are generated in "/flagged/site": e.g.
> > https://niallkp.github.io/flagged/cwiki/mnemonic.txt
>
> The contents are fine, but they cannot be accessed from there by Puppet.
>

OK, I just threw something in as a PoC, but happy to polish the fine
detail. I'll take a look at getting it to replicate whats currently done -
but it might not be for a few days.



> > Projects that are "in progress" also have a link to a "templates" page,
> so
> > for example, here is Gora's Template page:
> >    - https://niallkp.github.io/templates/gora.html
> > The "template" page has text for creating the JIRA and sending out the
> user
> > & announcement emails.
>
> That's very useful.
> If possible, add buttons to copy the content to the clipboard?
> i.e. as per process.md
>

Good idea, I'll add this to the todo list


> > Obviously the "Look & Feel" is crap. Its using the default "Minima" theme
> > from Jekyll. We can chose a different theme or try to re-create the L&F
> of
> > the existing site
>
> `The tracking.md page seems a bit out of place: it looks more like a
> template.
>

We could move the table generation part into an html include (don't think
markdown files can be includes or templates, but maybe I'm wrong) - but
there wouldn't be much else in tracking.md then, just the page elements you
mention below.


> Also missing are the required page elements (under 'Related Apache
> links' on the current site) and some Attic links (see 'The Apache
> Attic')
>

+1, todo


> And there needs to be a way to create the initial project.yaml files.
> The current site has a Python script to do this; it just requires the
> project name.
>

Good idea, I'll add this to the todo list


> > Niall
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Niall
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> It looks like the CWKI flags are generated as part of the website.
> > >> However, the Confluence webserver host does not have access to the
> > >> Attic website (unlike the TLP server, which hosts Attic as well as the
> > >> retired sites).
> > >>
> > >> I don't think it makes sense to checkout the entire Attic website on
> > >> the Confluence server merely to get access to the flag files.
> > >> Probably need to use a separate GHA to generate the required files in
> > >> a separate branch.
> > >> (AFAICT,  Git does not support checkout of a sub-directory, at least
> > >> not in a way that can be used by Puppet config)
> > >>
> > >> There are some Python scripts in the existing codebase that need to be
> > >> converted to use the new format.
> > >> Probably only retire.py needs significant work.
> > >>
> > >> Minor nit: the plugin files say that the flagged files are used by a
> > >> Lua filter to decide whether to add the banner.
> > >> That is not the case; the httpd config extracts the project name from
> > >> the request, and checks to see if there is a flag file with that name.
> > >> If so, the Lua filter is applied to the output.
>

need to remember to update this as well

Niall


> > >>
> > >> > Thanks
> > >> >
> > >> > Niall
> > >>
> > >
>

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