Move the website from Jekyll to Quarkus Roq

[phillip-kruger]

This moves smallrye.io from Jekyll to Quarkus Roq. The build is now ./mvnw and the Roq GitHub Action, replacing Ruby, Bundler and the pinned Jekyll 4.0 / Ruby 2.6 toolchain. The content stays as it is.

What stays the same

• The posts. All 83 AsciiDoc posts are unchanged (git sees them as renames into content/posts/). Roq reads their :page-* headers directly, and they are rendered by Asciidoctor, as before.
• Every published address. I checked every page path on the current main branch, apart from /docs/ and /assets/, against the new build. All of them exist. Posts stay at /blog/<name>/, the feed at /feed.xml, and the Health 3.1 certification page and its zips at their old paths. Old blog page numbers past the new last page (/blog/page/10/ to /17/) and /components.html redirect.
• The docs. Antora still builds /docs/ exactly as before.
• Deployment. The workflow still builds everything and pushes it to main, using the same GitHub App token. No repository settings need to change.
• The brand. The logo colours, Open Sans and the rye field are kept. Red Hat analytics stays, now loaded async so it does not hold up the page.

What changes

• A refreshed design, with a dark theme (it follows the OS setting and there's a toggle) and a proper phone layout.
• SEO: a sitemap, robots.txt, canonical and Open Graph tags, and schema.org data. Each post's synopsis becomes its meta description. Links use the canonical smallrye.io; _config.yml said www, which redirects.
• Speed: fonts are served from the site itself and the stylesheet is inlined into each page. jQuery, Font Awesome and 19 MB of hero image variants are removed (the hero is now a 101 KB WebP).
• The on-demand workflow is merged into the main one as workflow_dispatch. A daily scheduled run publishes future-dated posts on their date, and skips the push when nothing changed.
• Ten posts per blog page instead of five.
• Author photos are back on the blog list, and now on each post too. They are the authors' Gravatar images, downloaded once and served from public/images/authors/ (listed in data/authors.yml), so readers' browsers never contact Gravatar. An author without a photo gets their initial.
• The "Use SmallRye in your applications" band follows the theme, using each project's own light and dark logo: the official Quarkus and WildFly SVGs from commonhaus/artwork, and Open Liberty's mark and wordmark from openliberty.io.

Lighthouse (mobile)

Old: live smallrye.io. New: this branch, served locally.

Page	Performance	Accessibility	Best practices	SEO	LCP
Home	60 → 94	63 → 100	96 → 96	91 → 100	6.1 s → 2.0 s
Fault Tolerance 7.0.0 post	47 → 93	71 → 100	96 → 96	91 → 100	8.2 s → 1.9 s

Most of the remaining page weight is the Red Hat analytics script.

Screenshots

Before	After

The usage band in both themes:

The blog list in the dark theme:

A post in the dark theme:

Trying it

./mvnw quarkus:dev

The README covers the layout of the project and how to write a post. The header format for posts is the same as before.

Not yet verified

• The Antora docs step and the push to main: both are unchanged from the current workflow, but this PR's CI run is their first test with the new build. The PR run builds without deploying.

[Ladicek]

I wanted to do this as well, but I sure as hell wouldn't be able to improve the website design the way you did! :-)

[Ladicek]

I didn't review the changes themselves, but built the site locally and inspected the most important pages. LGTM!

[phillip-kruger]

I'll leave the merge to you. If all works, merge will deploy the new version

[gsmet]

Ooooooh, it's beautiful.

[Ladicek]

It is! I'm not super thrilled about the weird violet gradient on the title image on the title page, but other than that, perfect! :-)