Re: Difficulties with WAI site

On 12/12/2022 2:41 p.m., Matthew King wrote:
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> Michael,
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> We have targets to deliver AT support tables in the APG before end of 
> year. Is this off the table? Is there no way to update APG?
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Ok, let's talk about that. If that's urgent we will see if we can find 
resources. Or, if you manage to fix it such that we can "just deploy", 
that's cool too. :) We don't even know the source of the issue right now 
unfortunately.
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> What does “replacing the WAI site” mean? Moving away from Jekyll?
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That at least. Something less chewing gum and baling wire.

Michael

> Best,
>
> Matt
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> *From:*Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, December 12, 2022 8:58 AM
> *To:* ARIA Editors <public-aria-editors@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Difficulties with WAI site
>
> Hi - we didn't have quorum in the ARIA Editors meeting, but I do want 
> to update about the WAI site. As you may know, the site is built by 
> Jekyll which runs on Ruby. There are version-specific dependencies in 
> the code, and changes in how the
>
> Hi - we didn't have quorum in the ARIA Editors meeting, but I do want 
> to update about the WAI site. As you may know, the site is built by 
> Jekyll which runs on Ruby. There are version-specific dependencies in 
> the code, and changes in how the ecosystem resolves versions broke the 
> site. Steve was able to figure out how to work around it, but it seems 
> likely this sort of issue will become more frequent.
>
> Of immediate interest to the ARIA Editors is that we had to turn off 
> the APG build for the site. I'm not sure if it's related to the above 
> issue or something else, but something in the APG build broke and then 
> the WAI site stopped. We don't know how to fix this quickly and WAI 
> staff are focused on finishing a funded project right now, so in the 
> sort term will just need to defer updates to the APG for a few weeks.
>
> The positive outcome of this is that the WAI team is now all on board 
> with replacing the WAI site with something that can be maintained 
> going forward and sees it as an important project for the new year. We 
> will begin requirements gathering in January. I expect whatever 
> solution we pick will be easier to integrate things like APG than the 
> current one is.
>
> Michael
>