[kde-doc-english] New online doc generation engine, reprise

[Jeremy Whiting]

I took a quick look yesterday and found nothing lacking. Seems to work
well. Good job.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> wrote:
> написане Tue, 12 May 2015 02:46:42 +0300, Luigi Toscano
> <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>:
>
>
>> Hi again,
>> I spent a bit of time restructuring the code so that the generation is not
>> executed in the same directory: one directory for the checkout, one
>> directory
>> for the new website which replaces the current website only if the
>> generation
>> is successful; up-to-date files are copied from the old site. This
>> simplifies
>> the checkout process (no need to check for spurious files) and the
>> structure
>> of the output site (which contains only web-related files).
>> Also: documentation which has no English version is ignored; previously
>> missing modules are now enabled (Frameworks and extragear-edu); more
>> user-friendly search of an application doc given the application name.
>>
>> For more details about the code changes, please check the history of the
>> dev/flexgenerator branch:
>>
>>
>> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=websites%2Fdocs-kde-org.git&a=shortlog&h=f0d55fd52759af323c1fa5a17d05b7b96a540996
>>
>> I regenerated the site again on the staging server, please check if you
>> see
>> something strange:
>>
>> http://docs-staging.kde.org
>>
>> For the record, the complete regeneration ("cold") took 12.5 hours. The
>> update
>> today took <~1.5 hour, mostly spent in English documentation which is
>> always
>> regenerated (as timestamps returned by populate_documentation.sh are
>> always
>> "fresh").
>>
>> Known issues:
>> - the search part needs some fixes and probably a completely new engine
>> - the already mentioned issues with TeXLive 2015 are still there, so "es"
>> and
>> "fr" have no PDFs at all; some "lt", "ru" and "tr" documents shows the
>> issues
>> as well. This is unrelated from the code changes.
>>
>> If no other major issues are popping out, I will merge the branch in
>> master
>> and start updating the official site.
>>
>> As already mentioned, volunteers for an overhaul of the site graphics are
>> welcome!
>>
>> Ciao
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Many thanks for this excellent work.
>
> Can it be pushed into the live site (d.k.o)?
>
> I promise to fix the PDF problems as soon as Mageia 5 will be released so
> there will be no problems from the translation side.
>
> Thanks again and best regards,
> Yuri