[HADOOP-7069] Replace forrest with supported framework

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Lalit Tewari
• Reporter: Jakob Homan
• Created: 20/Dec/10 01:14
• Updated: 07/Aug/15 22:44
• Resolved: 21/May/12 19:48

Description

It's time to burn down the forrest. Apache forrest, which is used to generate the documentation for all three subprojects, has not had a release in several years (0.8, the version we use was released April 18, 2007), and requires JDK5, which was EOL'ed in November 2009. Since it doesn't seem likely Forrest will be developed any more, and JDK5 is not shipped with recent OSX versions, or included by default in most linux distros, we should look to find a new documentation system and convert the current docs to it.

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-6671 To use maven for hadoop common builds
• is related to: HADOOP-7075 Make the 'docs' target work with JDK6
• is related to: AVRO-319 Replace Forrest for documentation generation
• is related to: WHIRR-19 Create project website
• is related to: ZOOKEEPER-925 Consider maven site generation to replace our forrest site and documentation generation
• relates to: BIGTOP-65 Package Apache Forrest