Re: Proposal: project pages deployment through GitLab

Hi Dave,

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 6:53 PM Dave Cooper <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> That sounds like a natural next step to me.
>

Ok. Good. It's probably good to note that in my plans this type of project
page deployment will be the *only* supported way for project page
deployment once introduced. (Given the little feedback I received last time
I pitched the idea, I thought it was a good idea to mention this fact.)

I've analysed the content of some of the largest /project/*/public_html
directories to prepare for this move. While we made a huge step in reducing
the content of public_html/ directories which wasn't really "site content"
(yet, rather Git or Darcs repositories), some of the largest ones are using
the public_html/ directory for binary artifact distribution (mostly release
binaries). I'll have a look at what we can do to support hosting that kind
of content (maybe with an artifact repository of some kind?) instead of
depending on public_html/ for it.


> Maybe we'll finally set up a Project Page for Gendl in that case!
>
>
I'll also check if I can make this a phased approach where we can move the
projects over which aren't hosting (release/non-site) artifacts and work on
the other projects when we have a solution for the binary artifact content.


Regards,


Erik.


>
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:24 AM Erik Huelsmann <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As you all have noticed, I've been working to clean up common-lisp.net
>> and simplifying the administration process.
>>
>> One of the things we have done is that we implemented a deployment
>> pipeline for the common-lisp.net main site using GitLab. It's been a
>> great joy to work with it so far and made deployment of new site content
>> easier than ever before.
>>
>> *My proposal is to set up a GitLab CI based deployment pipeline* for *all
>> common-lisp.net <http://common-lisp.net> projects*. Meaning that I'm
>> proposing to import the current project pages (/project/*/public_html) into
>> GitLab repositories (<project-name>-site) with a gitlab-ci file which
>> causes the content to be published.
>>
>> The approach above will mean simple import of the existing static
>> content. However, after import, the static output can be replaced by
>> different input and a static content generator, just like we did with the
>> common-lisp.net site.
>>
>>
>> Eager to hear your thoughts,
>>
>>
>> Erik.
>>
>
>
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>
> Dave Cooper, [email protected]
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