[Mesa-dev] [RFC] - Rewrite mesa website in Sphinx

[Rob Clark]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 April 2018 at 10:40, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On 5 April 2018 at 23:55, Laura Ekstrand <laura at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
>>> So I spoke with Daniel Stone today about the infrastructure.  He estimates
>>> it will be ready to deploy the website in 2-3 weeks, at the most.  So I'd
>>> say the infrastructure will be there when we are ready.
>>>
>>> In the new system, our website will be running in its own container managed
>>> by freedesktop's new Gitlab server. So what we need to do for the deploy is:
>>
>> Right. We can't keep stacking random unmanaged bits for every project
>> into unconfined spaces, not least as it makes upgrades super painful.
>> What we want to do is use GitLab's CI mechanism to automatically run a
>> pipeline to generate the static pages, and likely serve them from
>> GitLab Pages. Having it all done in containers means that you can be
>> in complete control of the environment without having to block on
>> admins, and it's also easier for others to reproduce.
>>
>>> 1.  Fork mesa into a repo on Gitlab.com (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org).
>>
>> This should be actual gitlab.com for now. I don't have CI enabled on
>> gitlab.fd.o yet as it's surprisingly difficult to do without exposing
>> root to everyone. I'm aiming for the next couple of weeks to have this
>> done. I'll ping this thread when it is up.
>>
> Thanks for the confirmation and the work Dan.
>
> Some time back I looked how lxc manages its containers w/o root. I
> could help out porting that to docker/others.
>
> Laura, others,
>
> As you can see things are not finalised nor official*, yet. Hence why
> I would not rush into rewriting the docs/website. Otherwise the work
> would be sit in a branch, again :-\
>

drive-by comment but would pointing mesa3d.org at
mesa3d.readthedocs.org, or something like that, suffice as a temporary
solution, if needed?

BR,
-R

> HTH
> Emil
> * Did anyone mention gitlab to the folks who are not on IRC?
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