I've created a new page on the wiki as a proposed starting point for developers/contributors/comitters. This would replace the (imho) somewhat unfriendly bulleted list of un-ordered links that we have today. The intention is to provide a more readable way to navigate the links, biased towards getting new developers into the project.
http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyDev This mostly points to existing content, on the wiki or the web-site, but the is one major new area. http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/HowItWorks This is meant to allow people to find technical (developer) information about derby easily. My idea is that all technical documents would be linked from this set of pages (to keep the pages manageable the main sections of Derby are broken into individual pages). For example all functional and design specifications would be linked from here, I filled in a couple of examples either linking into Jira attachements or wiki pages (e.g. see http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/JdbcDriverLinks ). Of course this being the wiki I'm hoping that the writers of exsiting functional specs or writeups etc. would add the links into this structure themselves. I think all the links in these new pages are valid, except the one for incremental development. This is the one I was planning to add to the wiki but got side-tracked on the re-org when I couldn't find the patch advice page easily. I would appreciate any feedback, unless I hear otherwise I will replace the current bulleted list with just a link to this new layout. I will leave any links on the front page from the existing list that are not covered in the re-org. Thanks, Dan.
