Hi All,
See some comments inline.
John Sisson wrote:
Jason Dillon wrote:
...
I'm not sure that we need a separate user vs. admin guide right
now... so perhaps we can just collect all of the documentation into a
DOC10 or GUIDE10 space or something.
Any suggestions or recommendations?
We need to have a strategy on how we are going manage reviewing,
removing out of date content, and moving valid content from the existing
Wiki. A lot of the existing content is out of date or irrelevant. We
need to be careful that we don't end up having two half baked Wikis for
Geronimo.
Totally agree, should "focal points" for documentation be identified for
gathering/addressing all the doc strategy related stuff? or maybe a
structure similar to "contributors and committers" should be in place
for documentation!?
Maybe ApacheCon would be a good opportunity to get everyone together and
review the content in the existing Wiki. IMHO, if we don't have
Guys, keep in mind that not everybody is going to ApacheCon, pls keep
the dev list updated with your discussions on this.
accurate documentation for the 1.0 release then we should reconsidering
the release (we kind of had an excuse for milestone releases, 1.0 should
be a step up in quality from milestones.. users will have expectations
of quality).
Does anyone have any docs/info that would like to include in the
confuence site? If later it is decided that confluence is an absolute
"no go" then we can still migrate that info out but at least we would
have all the doc consolidated in one place to migrate from.
The site shows we are using an Evaluation License. We should have a
full license if we are relying upon it.
I would guess this will be fixed once the decision of supporting a
locally hosted confluence site is taken.
Is there a way we can set the footer on every page to say that any
content contributed to the Wiki is under the ASL 2.0 license, with a
link to the license, or have a notice on the edit page? Documentation
contributions should not be any different to code contributions.
We had this discussion before, being a confluence admin this is really
easy to achive by editing the current template. It should not take more
than a two mins.
I was also thinking of adding a simple glossary and knowledge-base
space and/or faq space, that would auto-generate listings for pages
added and provide simple navigation (similar to http://
confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Home).
I am not that familiar with Confluence, but it appears that the URL
above hosts discussions. Do we really want to encourage users to have
discussions in places other than the mailing lists? If we could import
all of Geronimo's mail archives into its searchable mail interface...
that sounds powerful as they say it is fully indexed and searchable with
your other content.
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/features/mail.jsp
IMHO we don't want users having to search in two different places to
find information.
I believe that keeping the things simple is the key. Having too many
options on the front page may (and probaly will) cause a negative effect
in the user.
Users getting to this (future) page is because they have a
question/problem that needs to be quickly resolved. Getting to the
answer should be as easy/simple as possible.
As for the mail list discussions, there has to be a way to let the users
know which "results" are official and which are not (i.e. other users reply)
Hernan
John
--jason
