adding asciidoc to the build
diff --git a/src/site/build.gradle b/src/site/build.gradle
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+++ b/src/site/build.gradle
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+apply plugin: 'org.asciidoctor.gradle.asciidoctor'
+
+buildscript {
+ repositories {
+ jcenter()
+ }
+ dependencies {
+ classpath 'org.asciidoctor:asciidoctor-gradle-plugin:1.5.0'
+ }
+}
+
+asciidoctor {
+ sourceDir = new File("site-docs")
+ outputDir = new File("site-build")
+ options = [
+ doctype: 'book',
+ attributes: [
+ 'source-highlighter': 'coderay',
+ toc : '',
+ idprefix : '',
+ idseparator : '-'
+ ]
+ ]
+}
+
diff --git a/src/site/site-docs/index.adoc b/src/site/site-docs/index.adoc
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+//
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+// contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+// this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+// The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+// (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+// the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+//
+= Apache Bigtop
+
+*Bigtop is an Apache Foundation project for Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists looking for
+comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration of the leading open source big data components.*
+Bigtop supports a wide range of components/projects, including, but not limited to, Hadoop, HBase and Spark.
+
+[cols="3*", options="header"]
+|===
+ | Packaging
+ | Smoke testing
+ | Virtualization
+
+ | Bigtop supports a wide range of components/projects, including, but not limited to, Hadoop, HBase and Spark.
+ | Bigtop provides an integrated smoke testing framework, alongside a suite of over 50 test files.
+ | Bigtop provides vagrant recipes, raw images, and (work-in-progress) docker recipes for deploying Hadoop from zero.
+|===
+
+Bigtop components power the leading Hadoop distros and support many Operating Systems, including Debian/Ubuntu,
+CentOS, Fedora, SUSE and many others.
+
+Bigtop includes tools and a framework for testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime, etc.) for both
+initial deployments as well as upgrade scenarios for the entire data platform, not just the individual components.
+
+== Tool requirements for building Bigtop
+[cols="a,a,a", options="header"]
+|===
+ | On all systems
+ | Also on RPM-based systems
+ | Also on DEB-based systems
+
+ | * Java JDK 1.6
+ * Apache Ant
+ * Apache Maven
+ * wget
+ * tar
+ * git
+ * subversion
+ * gcc
+ * gcc-c++
+ * make
+ * fuse
+ * protobuf-compiler
+ * autoconf
+ * automake
+ * libtool
+ * sharutils
+ * xmlto
+
+ | * lzo-devel
+ * zlib-devel
+ * fuse-devel
+ * openssl-devel
+ * python-devel
+ * libxml2-devel
+ * libxslt-devel
+ * cyrus-sasl-devel
+ * sqlite-devel
+ * mysql-devel
+ * openldap-devel
+ * rpm-build
+ * createrepo
+ * redhat-rpm-config (RedHat/CentOS only)
+
+ | * libxslt1-dev
+ * libkrb5-dev
+ * libldap2-dev
+ * libmysqlclient-dev
+ * libsasl2-dev
+ * libsqlite3-dev
+ * libxml2-dev
+ * python-dev
+ * python-setuptools
+ * liblzo2-dev
+ * libzip-dev
+ * libfuse-dev
+ * libssl-dev
+ * build-essential
+ * dh-make
+ * debhelper
+ * devscripts
+ * reprepro
+|===
+
+== Continuous Integration
+
+Apache Bigtop uses Jenkins for continuous integration testing (you can learn more about Jenkins
+http://jenkins-ci.org/[here]). There are 2 Jenkins servers currently running for the
+project:
+
+ * https://builds.apache.org/view/A-D/view/Bigtop/
+ * http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/
+
+The Apache Jenkins server runs the "Bigtop-trunk" job whenever code is committed to the trunk branch,
+which in turn runs several test jobs.
+
+The Bigtop Jenkins server runs daily jobs for the 0.3 and trunk branches, and each job has a configuration
+for each supported operating system. In each branch there is a job to build each component, a job to run
+package tests and a job to build package repositories. There are also jobs for building virtual machine
+images as well as the 2 most recent releases and other miscellaneous tasks for various RCs and tests.
+For example:
+
+[horizontal]
+ * http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Bigtop-trunk/job/Bigtop-trunk-All/[Bigtop-trunk-All]
+ Runs all of the jobs for the trunk branch.
+ * http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Bigtop-trunk/job/Bigtop-trunk-HBase/[Bigtop-trunk-HBase]
+ Builds the HBase packages only.
+ * http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Bigtop-trunk/job/Bigtop-trunk-packagetest/[Bigtop-trunk-packagetest]
+ Runs the package tests.
+ * http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Bigtop-trunk/job/Bigtop-trunk-repository/[Bigtop-trunk-repository]
+ Builds an APT or YUM package repository.
+ * http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/view/Bigtop-trunk/job/Bigtop-0.5.0/[Bigtop-0.5.0]
+ Builds the 0.5.0 release.
+ * http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/job/Bigtop-VM-matrix/[Bigtop-VM-matrix]
+ Builds virtual machines of branches trunk and 0.3 for KVM, VMWare and VirtualBox.
