Helping build the website (was Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for August 2011 (jena-dev@incubator.apache.org))

[Ross Gardler <rg...@opendirective.com>]

On 7 August 2011 00:48, Al Baker <aj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way for the community (i.e. people without write access to the
> SVN) to help build the website - e.g. confluence to website publishing like
> some other projects have?  A git repository that could accept pull requests
> to edits for the website files, etc?

Yes.  The OpenOffice.org project has written perhaps the clearest
instructions on how to do this.

Ask here if you need help.

> I'm sure there are folks out there that'd be wlling to help, myself
> included.

I'm sure if you, or anyone else, are willing to dive in and provide
patches you will be recognised quickly. This will make future edits
easier for you.

> There are also 3 new community driven Jena contributions created over the
> past 5 weeks that weren't in the report,

Board reports at the ASF are about community health rather than
technical activities. Even so, I don't see any reference to the
contributions you mention here on this list (as an ASF mentor I do not
participate in the other Jena lists, we have a rule here at the ASF
which is designed to ensure that community is fully informed - "if it
didn't happen on the list, it didn't happen").

Thanks,
Ross

Re: Helping build the website

[Andy Seaborne <an...@epimorphics.com>]

On 07/08/11 00:48, Al Baker wrote:
 > Is there a way for the community (i.e. people without write access
 > to the SVN) to help build the website - e.g. confluence to
 > website publishing like some other projects have?  A git repository
 > that could accept pull requests to edits for the website files, etc?

Al,

To answer your question: Jena-the-project has decided to use the Apache 
CMS system. See the thread at:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-jena-dev/201107.mbox/%3C4E269AF5.3010905@epimorphics.com%3E

which is:

http://www.mail-archive.com/jena-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg01000.html

The current state can be seen at:

http://jena.staging.apache.org/jena/

The content is in SVN:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jena/site/trunk

Apache doesn't do git (although there can be read-only mirrors). Patches 
are submitted to JIRA (where you get to say the content can be used for 
Apache projects).

	Andy

Re: Helping build the website (was Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for August 2011 (jena-dev@incubator.apache.org))

[Ross Gardler <rg...@opendirective.com>]

On 7 August 2011 02:19, Al Baker <aj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll take a look at the documentation and get started.

That's great, let us know if you need any assistance.

>
> The three "Jena in Groovy" projects were announced on jena-users, I didn't
> CC jena-dev.  I will do so in the future.

No need to do that unless you intend for the code to be donated to
this project. I was just concerned that I might have missed something
important with respect to community development in the project.

Thanks

Ross

Re: Helping build the website (was Re: Incubator PMC/Board report for August 2011 (jena-dev@incubator.apache.org))

[Al Baker <aj...@gmail.com>]

Hi Ross,

I'll take a look at the documentation and get started.

The three "Jena in Groovy" projects were announced on jena-users, I didn't
CC jena-dev.  I will do so in the future.

Thanks,
Al

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Ross Gardler <rg...@opendirective.com>wrote:

> On 7 August 2011 00:48, Al Baker <aj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way for the community (i.e. people without write access to the
> > SVN) to help build the website - e.g. confluence to website publishing
> like
> > some other projects have?  A git repository that could accept pull
> requests
> > to edits for the website files, etc?
>
> Yes.  The OpenOffice.org project has written perhaps the clearest
> instructions on how to do this.
>
> Ask here if you need help.
>
> > I'm sure there are folks out there that'd be wlling to help, myself
> > included.
>
> I'm sure if you, or anyone else, are willing to dive in and provide
> patches you will be recognised quickly. This will make future edits
> easier for you.
>
> > There are also 3 new community driven Jena contributions created over the
> > past 5 weeks that weren't in the report,
>
> Board reports at the ASF are about community health rather than
> technical activities. Even so, I don't see any reference to the
> contributions you mention here on this list (as an ASF mentor I do not
> participate in the other Jena lists, we have a rule here at the ASF
> which is designed to ensure that community is fully informed - "if it
> didn't happen on the list, it didn't happen").
>
> Thanks,
> Ross
>