Maven Site in CMS [WAS Re: Switch Website To CMS ...?]

[Robert Burrell Donkin <rd...@apache.org>]

On 04/09/12 06:44, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2012-04-07, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
>
>> Today, the podling website[1] is generated by Maven for Rat.
>
>> A CMS based[2] replacement[3] has been in staging for a while. Some
>> pages are edited using the bookmarklet (please feel free to jump in),
>> others are generated using Maven then checked in. (For rat use 'mvn
>> site:deploy -Pcms')
>
>> Should we switch to the CMS...?
>
> I have just tried the mvn-based site, I changed a single page and had to
> commit all Javadocs - I don't think I like this.

And it's probably not a great idea to continue spamming the commits list :-/

> In general I'm not a big fan of mvn sites with generated reports that
> are useful for the projects developers but not for its users.  Given we
> only have a few content-pages in total (less than 20, I'd guess), I'd
> prefer to manage them via the CMS and drop the mvn site completely.

As a user, I find having a full Maven site for each release is useful. 
This would only need one site checking per release. So, I'm probably in 
agreement.

Robert