Guillaume,
continuing our conversation, now on dev@, I'll reissue some of my previous
comments (just my observations, hopefully it still will make sense ;-) )
The XBean folks are using Confluence to maintain their site but we (Geronimo)
are not. We still use xdocs and ant script to build our site. The source for
Geronimo's web site is on svn.
We are not using Confluence for Geronimo's web site due to some issues with the autoexport plugin. Until we address those issues, vote and mover over Confluence, IMO, the subprojects listed under Geronimo's web site URL ( geronimo.apache.org/XYZ_project ) should use the same build method we use and be part of Geronimo's web site svn repo.
So far we have three subprojects listed and they are integrated in three
different ways:
1.- Development Tools : part of main web site src and build process (ideal)
2.- GBuild : link to cwiki (external link, no real integration but
not disruptive either)
3.- XBean : bypass svn repo and copied directly into
/www/geronimo.apache.org/xbean (IMO, *really really bad practice*)
The way it is explained in the link you are pointing out
(http://cwiki.apache.org/CWIKI/) goes well if you don't have the other half of
your website already in production and authored with a totally different method.
The fastest way to fix this would be to have an external link to XBean cwiki.
Similar to what we have with GBuild. However this does not address the
integration issue.
We add subprojects to an existing structure/process and these new subprojects,
I think, should adapt to the current procedures in place.
What I do consider a *really bad practice* is a melange of methods for
authoring the web site. I consider XBean part of the Geronimo site since it's
URL is geronimo.apache.org/xbean
The xbean piece of the site does not match the template used for the Geronimo
site, it is similar but not the same. I think we are projecting an inconsistent
web site image.
Bottom line, I think we should be consistent in the way we present the web site
and the way we maintain it.
Again, if I missed or totally forgot the discussion about this pls let me know,
I would really appreciate if some one can point me to it.
Comments?
Cheers!
Hernan
Guillaume Nodet wrote:
The XBean web site has been moved from goopen.org to the
ASF confluence. I have set up a cron job to rsync the
autoexported site to
http://geronimo.apache.org/xbean/
as explained at http://cwiki.apache.org/CWIKI/
The new site should be up in a few hours (time for the mirrors to
be updated).
