Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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0.7
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None
Description
Dave Brondsema wrote:
> Ross Gardler wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Juan Jose Pablos wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Why do we need to have:
>>> A site-author/content/plugins
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/plugins.xml
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/IMSManifest.zip
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/OpenOffice.org.zip
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/simplified-docbook.zip
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/rtf-output.zip
>>
>>
>>
>> These are the distribution files of released plugins that must be
>> accessible on the website.
>>
>
> This isn't necessary, it's just an extra step before they go to
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/site/ anyway.
You mean we should publish directly to the website? That makes sense, I agree.
<snip/>
> I think we should have an ant script which builds a plugin, and then
> publishes it to the appropriate place in svn: ../asf/forrest/site/plugins.
>
> See forrestbot's deploy.xml for a way to use ant to commit to SVN.
There is the start of an ant script in the plugins directory. At the moment it builds the distribution and places it in site-author.
> Ross Gardler wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Juan Jose Pablos wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Why do we need to have:
>>> A site-author/content/plugins
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/plugins.xml
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/IMSManifest.zip
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/OpenOffice.org.zip
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/simplified-docbook.zip
>>> A site-author/content/plugins/rtf-output.zip
>>
>>
>>
>> These are the distribution files of released plugins that must be
>> accessible on the website.
>>
>
> This isn't necessary, it's just an extra step before they go to
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/site/ anyway.
You mean we should publish directly to the website? That makes sense, I agree.
<snip/>
> I think we should have an ant script which builds a plugin, and then
> publishes it to the appropriate place in svn: ../asf/forrest/site/plugins.
>
> See forrestbot's deploy.xml for a way to use ant to commit to SVN.
There is the start of an ant script in the plugins directory. At the moment it builds the distribution and places it in site-author.