This codebase generates the Apache Aurora available at http://aurora.apache.org.
Community contributions and patches are welcomed to help keep the Aurora site up-to-date; please see the section below on contributing website changes or feel free to ask questions on the Aurora IRC channel, #aurora on Freenode.net.
The Aurora website is powered by Middleman, a static website generator written in ruby. If you'd like to learn more about Middleman and how it works, their official websites have helpful documentation.
For most website-related changes, knowledge of Middleman or Ruby are unnecessary; Middleman is used to convert markdown files to HTML and handle dynamic templates.
The website has three sub-directories:
source/, which includes site templates and markdown files. This is the directory you will revise documents in 99% of the time.content/, where static-generated HTML files app live. Files in this directory are generated when therake2.0 buildcommand is run, and these files are served via HTTP on the Aurora website.tmp/, a directory used when cloning the remote project repository before processing documentation and other files.
The main directory includes a Rakefile, which will be used to run commands related to building and testing the website during development. More info below.
From the root of the repository run the following:
$ docker run -it -v $(pwd):/website -p 4567:4567 apache/aurora-website:dev
Execute the remainder of the commands inside of this docker container.
To generate the site one only needs to run rake2.0 after performing the setup
tasks mentioned above. This will download the latest Apache Aurora documentation
contained in the docs folder, integrate them into the site, and generate all
other files within the source folder.
rake2.0
rake2.0 build # Build the website from source
rake2.0 clean # Remove any temporary products
rake2.0 clobber # Remove any generated file
rake2.0 dev # Run the site in development mode
rake2.0 generate_docs # Fetch documentation from git for rendering.
The majority of our documentation currently lives in git as markdown. The generate_docs
task automates the process of fetching the markdown, performing some translations, and
storing it in a version-specific directory under source/documentation.
You will use the generate_docs rake task to fetch the docs you wish to place on the website.
This task takes two arguments - title and git_tag. The title is the name to give this branch
of documentation.
If a documentation patch is contributed and you would like to update the website to reflect
it, you will be updating the documentation for latest.
Note: since documentation is associated with versions, be careful to avoid publishing
misleading documentation for unreleased featuresl
# This will fetch the docs and place them in `source/documentation/latest`.
rake2.0 generate_docs[latest,master]
# Render the docs.
rake2.0
After completing an official Aurora release, you should add the new version of documentation and advertise the release on the website.
$RELEASE in this case is the number version of the release (i.e. 0.22.0).
First, add the new release to the top of data/downloads.yml.
# Add documentation for the new release
rake2.0 generate_docs[$RELEASE,$RELEASE]
# Update the `latest` release docs
rake2.0 generate_docs[latest,$RELEASE]
# Render the docs.
rake2.0
To live edit the site run rake2.0 dev and then open a browser window to
http://localhost:4567. Any change you make to the sources dir will
be shown on the local dev site immediately. Errors will be shown in the
console you launched rake2.0 dev within.
Have you made local changes that you would like to contribute to the website? Make a PR to our website repository through Github.
All project committers have access to commit to the Aurora website; we encourage those without commit access to contribute changes by following the steps above.
The website uses Apache Infra tooling to sync this Git repository with the live site.
The content folder contains the websites content and when changes are committed to the asf-staging or asf-site branches, changes will be automatically deployed.
Before committing ensure that changes from source/ have been properly built in the content/
directory.
$ git add content source
$ git commit -m "Message describing the website changes you've made."
Updates to the current website should first be submitted as a Pull Request to the asf-staging branch.
Once the PR has been merged in the asf-staging branch, a live preview will be available at: https://aurora.staged.apache.org/
If the site looks good and functions correctly, a PR should be made to the asf-site branch from the asf-staging branch, squashing all commits into a single commit detailing the change (usually a release).
Note: there is sometimes a slight delay between merging PRs and changes appearing online.
Except as otherwise noted this software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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