[ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] Coming (Very) Soon - New ovirt.org Website & Deprecated Wiki

Wed Mar 16 16:16:34 UTC 2016


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Erez" <derez at redhat.com>
> To: "Mikey Ariel" <mariel at redhat.com>
> Cc: infra at ovirt.org, users at ovirt.org, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 5:20:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] [ovirt-devel] Coming (Very) Soon - New ovirt.org	Website &	Deprecated Wiki
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mikey Ariel" <mariel at redhat.com>
> > To: users at ovirt.org, devel at ovirt.org, infra at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 1:42:56 PM
> > Subject: [ovirt-devel] Coming (Very) Soon - New ovirt.org Website &
> > 	Deprecated Wiki
> > 
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> > 
> > In the past months we've been working on upgrading the oVirt project
> > infrastructure, to better support the community contributions.
> > 
> > One of the main platforms for our user documentation, release
> > management content, and community content has been the MediaWiki site
> > that you all know as ovirt.org. Most of us are familiar with the wiki
> > site format, with all its advantages and disadvantages.
> > 
> > After several years of serving the community, I'm happy to announce
> > that we are very near to completing a full upgrade of the website
> > infrastructure from a wiki site to a static site, source-controlled on
> > GitHub and authored in Markdown.
> > 
> > This email is the pre-launch announcement, as we are reaching the
> > final stages of the migration, and there are a few actions that might
> > affect your work on website content in the meantime.
> > 
> > Why migrate the website
> > =======================
> > 
> > As mentioned, wiki sites provide an open and flexible content editing
> > platform. Unfortunately, as the site grows the content becomes quite
> > difficult to manage and curate, resulting in lots of obsolete,
> > outdated, and incorrect information.
> > 
> > By moving to a source-controlled repository and implementing GitHub's
> > contribution workflow, we strive to ease the work of maintaining an
> > up-to-date content site, employ a peer-review process for changes, and
> > standardize the authoring markup language to lower the contribution
> > barrier.
> > 
> > The Middleman framework (Ruby-based static site generator) was chosen
> > based on observing successful implementation of other open-source
> > community websites, such as OpenStack RDO, Project Atomic, and Gluster.
> > 
> > What we did so far
> > ==================
> > 
> > When we started the migration, our Web design team exported all of the
> > wiki content from the old website and converted it to MD files. They
> > also set up the website config flow, auto-deploy, and upgraded the
> > look-and-feel of the website.
> > 
> > We then initiated a content review effort as well as a UX review for
> > the new website in a smaller forum, which caught most of the critical
> > issues with the new website and helped us get the new format to a
> > place where we can release the website in a near-GA/public-beta format.
> > 
> > Yesterday (Wednesday Feb 17) we exported the website one more time and
> > currently we're running a diff on all the files that changed since the
> > initial export was done, to make sure we grab all the updates and the
> > latest content before we launch the new website.
> > 
> > What is about to happen
> > =======================
> > 
> > Today we are initiating a **wiki freeze**, which means the old
> > MediaWiki site will become read-only. This is to ensure that all of
> 
> Where's the old MediaWiki site? (seems the old URL redirects to the new one).

http://old.ovirt.org/Home

> 
> > our diff scripts reflect the most current state of the content on the
> > website, and that we don't lose any content in the transition.
> > 
> > Barring any unexpected blockers, we will port the ovirt.org domain to
> > point to the new website and open the new website for contributions on
> > **Monday February 22** or earlier.
> > 
> > What do you need to do right now
> > ================================
> > 
> > If you have any wiki pages that you're actively editing, please don't
> > save them to the old MediaWiki site, and hold onto your pending
> > changes until we send the happy launch email.
> > 
> > We will also include instructions on how to contribute/edit/add
> > content to the new website, but in general the workflow will be
> > aligned with the standard GitHub best practices
> > (clone-edit-commit-pullrequest), so you can utilize all of the git
> > commands that you already know or work directly within the GitHub web
> > editor.
> > 
> > 
> > I'd like to thank all of the people who were involved with this
> > migration so far, ovirt.org is a big website with lots of content and
> > it was no small task to upgrade it.
> > 
> > Please feel free to ping me on- or off-list if you have any questions
> > about the next steps, and expect a happy launch email soon!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mikey
> > 
> > 
> > - --
> > Mikey Ariel
> > Community Lead, oVirt
> > www.ovirt.org
> > 
> > "To be is to do" (Socrates)
> > "To do is to be" (Jean-Paul Sartre)
> > "Do be do be do" (Frank Sinatra)
> > 
> > Mobile: +420-702-131-141
> > IRC: mariel / thatdocslady
> > Twitter: @ThatDocsLady
> > 
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