Move web site parts from matroska-specification to separate repository
mbunkus opened this issue · comments
This is the continuation of ietf-wg-cellar/matroska-specification#386.
@robUx4 just a "heads-up/FYI" ping
Current state of the move: I've migrated all pages safe for the whole "Technical / Info" sub-tree. I plan to include the matroska-specification repository as a sub-module and let Jekyll generate the pages in one step.
I'll include more information on how to build & develop the pages soon. I'll also provide a live version somewhere soon.
For now, if you want to test what's there:
git clone …
cd infrastructure/website
jekyll serve --watch
The migration is mostly done. The top-level README.md has updated build instructions.
The web site is currently available at https://dev.matroska.org/
I plan on replacing the old one in a couple of days if no one objects. I won't just delete the old one, though; if there's need, we'll be able to resurrect it (temporarily).
Sounds good to me. You may mention in the README in this repo the dev.matroska.org link. Is it updated automatically or manually ?
I planned on moving the content over to www.matroska.org later today, so there's no need for for dev link. But I can mention www.matroska.org in the repo's README.
At the moment it isn't automated — yet. I'm still thinking about whether or not I really want to automate it, seeing as several pages required manual intervention to make them work properly. But I likely will (automate it, that is).
Another thing I was going to talk to you about is hosting stuff on the Sourceforge project site vs. hosting on dl.matroska.org. For reasons the stuff you publish is on SF while the stuff I publish is on dl.matroska.org. Some of your stuff is even on dl.matroska.org, but only in outdated versions. I'd really like to unify this on dl.matroska.org and complete deprecate the SF's Matroska project site.
For that to work, though, you'll need read/write access to dl.matroska.org (which is only a file tree with automatic indexing by the web server, no web pages involved). Assuming you're OK with the general idea, I was planning on implementing that today or tomorrow so that you can upload stuff there on your own. Afterwards I'd like to go over the new www.matroska.org web site & migrate all the stuff it points to on SF to dl.matroska.org.
Does that sound good to you?
The Jekyll-based web site is now live at www.matroska.org
What happened to the old content ? Is it still visible somewhere, at least as a static page ? I often used the old site to double check how things used to be defined. So as things keep on changing it would be good to still have a reference. It's not any webpage but the page that used to be the de-facto standard for a long time.
It's still available on the Wayback Machine but I don't know how long they keep "minor" websites stored.
At the moment the old content isn't available publicly. I can certainly create static copies under a different domain, e.g. "old.matroska.org".
I'm not too happy about keeping old content publicly available, though. All it does is confuse people, especially when they just Google for stuff and end up on "old.matroska.org" — most people never look at the URL/address bar.
That being said, I can certainly make the old stuff require a login and give you credentials. That way you could still compare with the old content without having it publicly available, if that works for you.
Old content is now available but password-protected. You should have received an email by now with your credentials.
Looks like everything's done from my point of view (safe for moving stuff over from SourceForge, but that's not urgent).