Moving nhforge to github?

[Oskar Berggren]

We seem to have repeated issues with nhforge being comparatively difficult to update, and right now it seems everyone is locked out. Though it's not too bad it could also do with a facelift.

We might look into migrating this to Github. As I understand it we could have static content in Github Pages (as a organization-level repository), for which anyone can suggest an update using a pull request. There is also Github Wiki.

I've never really used Github Pages or Wiki so cannot evaluate so far. Maybe others have thoughts?

Anyway, such a migration could be done by a volunteer who would like to help without digging deep into NHibernate source code.

/Oskar

[Alexander Zaytsev]

I support this changes. I could do this migration.

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[Alexander Zaytsev]

Probably we could automatically move blogs and articles to jekyll, wiki will require semi-manual upload. 

Aslo we will lose some functionality as login/signup feature.

I'm going to copy nhforge.org with HTTrack and then play around with this copy over github pages. 

[Alexander Zaytsev]

Can we somehow get the sources and the DB of nhforge.org?

Best Regards, 

Alexander

[Alexander Köplinger]

I've migrated the Mono Project website http://www.mono-project.com to GitHub Pages as well (along with a facelift), we launched it two weeks ago and the feedback has been very positive so far.

The repo is at https://github.com/mono/website

If you have any questions about GH Pages or how we've done it, feel free to ask :)

nhforge.org's design is not that bad, but there are a couple small things that could be improved on the site:

- the side bar content is pretty much identical to what I saw when I first used NH about ~5 years ago, so should be updated with something more relevant

- the "Download Now" link on the homepage points to a .zip file, while the NuGet package is insanely popular with over half a million downloads and should be the preferred way users get NHibernate in my opinion

Best regards,

Alex

[Oskar Berggren]

I've had a little chat with Dario, he's promised to have a look at this discussion shortly.

Btw, I have control over the nhibernate.info domain if we think that name is better than nhforge.

/Oskar

[Daniel Laberge]

+1 for the move to Github

[Alexander Zaytsev]

Hi guys,

I've managed to export blog posts from nhforge.org. The very first alpha preview of the new github-pages based website is available at http://nhibernate.github.io/

What needs to be done:

1. Apply theme

2. Copy comments to disqus (any alternatives?) and enable them on a blog

3. Migrate wiki to github

4. Move over to a new domain.

Please contribute

Best Regards, 

Alexander

2014-08-26 7:00 GMT+12:00 Oskar Berggren <oskar.b...@gmail.com>:

[Jeffrey Becker]

Is there anything I can do to help or does this require people who already have access to nhforge etc?

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[Alexander Zaytsev]

Hi Jeffrey,

You can help with styling and with investigation of how to export wikis from communityserver (2008 I believe), and with proposal
how to import wikis (structure, platform, etc).

And, of cource, you can help with testing.

Best Regards,
Alexander

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[Jeffrey Becker]

I've been checking into this and nothing seems to be turning up.  There don't seem to be all that many pages in the existing wiki.  Maybe a manual conversion is a better bet?

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[Gunnar Liljas]

IMHO, it's better to just set up a thin, core website, and leave most of the NHForge content in a backup somewhere. Most of it is very old, and even if it's relevant, the very age of the content is bad publicity. The first page has a prominent "follow us on Twitter" button. I don't think we want people to click it, The latest tweet was three years ago,

/G 

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[Alexander Zaytsev]

You are welcome to make pull requests:)

[Oskar Berggren]

I'm gonna ask around for access to the twitter account. I think we should revive it.

/Oskar

[Ricardo Peres]

+1
But, what are we going to twit about? NH releases are not so frequent.

[Gunnar Liljas]

But it's a good start!

2014-10-05 18:14 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Peres <rjp...@gmail.com>:

+1
But, what are we going to twit about? NH releases are not so frequent.

[Oskar Berggren]

I've ported the "Your first NHibernate based application" wiki page to Github Wiki (https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate.github.io/wiki/Your-first-NHibernate-based-application). This is the "Getting Started" link on the nhforge.org start page. I ported and formatted the page manually. A bit cumbersome...

However, it lacks the images. I'm not entirely sure how to handle those. The Wiki editor itself only allows adding images using an URL, so we must decide how to manage the files. Supposedly by putting them in a repository. Any suggestions?

/Oskar

[Alexander Zaytsev]

Thanks Oskar for the great work!

Yes, we need to put files to nhibernate.github.io repository to the images folder on master branch.

Best Regards, 

Alexander

[Jeffrey Becker]

Would people be amenable to a pull request updating the content on this page a little? NHibernate has come a long way since 2008/9 when this was written.  Specifically using: Nuget packages rather than manual references, Loquacious Configuration rather than xml files, Mapping by Code rather than hbm files, and Linq Queries rather than Criteria, and DI compatibility rather than static singletons.  All of those features are important and should be mentioned but I think the code samples for the "my first NHibernate application" should reflect the state of the art now, not circa 4 years ago.

[Daniel Laberge]

I also feel this would help direct new NHibernate users in the right, modern direction.

Cheers.

Daniel Laberge Vice-Président R&D

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[Oskar Berggren]

PR with new and updated content would be very welcome. And work in the wiki too of course.

/Oskar

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[Jeffrey Becker]

The working/incomplete version of my update to the wiki article is here:

https://github.com/jeffreyabecker/nhibernate.github.io/wiki/My-First-NHibernate

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[cremor]

Seems like http://nhibernate.github.io is now way better than http://nhforge.org (which isn't even finishing loading for me). Any reason why the NHibernate Github project description and readme file still points to http://nhforge.org?

[Ricardo Peres]

Nobody changed it! :-P

Pull requests are welcome!

RP

[Oskar Berggren]

The nhibernate.github.io address is temporary.

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[Jacob Levitt]

Glad we're moving everything to github. It's what people know. Even Microsoft is putting .NET core on github now.

[Oskar Berggren]

2014-11-12 22:54 GMT+01:00 Jeffrey Becker <jeffrey....@gmail.com>:
> The working/incomplete version of my update to the wiki article is here:
>
> https://github.com/jeffreyabecker/nhibernate.github.io/wiki/My-First-NHibernate
>

Due to the excessive effort required to port the nhforge wiki content
to Github wiki, I gave up on that and redid it as a static HTML page.
Still the original article. Would be great if you could adapt your
material to this pattern.

/Oskar