Hey guys, good news: Oxygen will support Cayenne with free licenses. They just need to know how many licenses we need. I now need to know who would like to step up. Please give me your full name and your apache id, i will then provide a list to the Oxygen guys who will in turn provide you the license.
Of course we/you should decide first if we really need them :-) Cheers Christian On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> wrote: >>> we should start thinking about switching to the new ASF CMS. >> >> I've spent a lot of time over the last year working with docbook and am >> finding it really rather nice. > > I had a time where I compared Forrest with Docbook and finally found > Docbook very interesting myself. It can be generated to plain html and > one can send patches. This are my strongest requirements. Besides, its > easily editable and quite easy to learn. > >> rather than crafting it into html around the design. > > This is also true for the CMS. > >> This means, amongst other things, that we can >> easily produce pdf/html/etc formats. I have lots of examples if people are >> interested in seeing it. > > Right this is a very interesting option. As I understood Cayenne is > made to be easy for the end customer, a downloadable, complete PDF > guide is probably not the badest idea. > >> The main downside, is that all the docs need to be rewritten. And that's >> lots of lots of work. The best docbook editor available is Oxygen Author >> (not a free product). > > I have asked the Oxygen guy if they are willing to give out a few > licenses to Apache people. Lets see, sometimes they do things like > that. > >> I'd be happy to set up the basic structure of the >> docs, the build scripts and a few pages. But I'll not have the time to >> rewrite all the pages. If the consensus is yes to docbook, I am happy to get >> the first part done. > > If the first part done, I guess the rest comes step by step. My guts > say docbook might be a very good choice > > There are also Apache Forrest, Mvn Site, Piwi etc available for such > tasks. But I think Docbook is the most stable and powerful tool out > there. Mvn site is good, but also very basic. > > Cheers > -- http://www.grobmeier.de
