FYI, I imported the GERONIMO space from:
http://opensource2.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/
GERONIMO/ Home
Are we allowed to run this in the zone? It would be nice to get
confirmation of this (how I don't know) as I don't think users will
be happy if they contribute to it and then have the rug pulled from
under their feet.
Officially... I do not know. So far no one has asked me to take it
down.
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removing out of date content, and moving valid content from the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 A lot of the existing content is out of date or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.
Agreed. I was surprised to see that my test of a wiki voting system
was still up there... and on the frontpage even.
One thing that I really like about Confluence in comparison to other
wiki systems is its ability to easily move pages around and delete
pages to the trash. This really helps improve the ability to
refactor the wiki content and structure as needs change.
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 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).
Ya, defs talk it up, but as someone already mentioned not everyone
will be at ApacheCon, so bring it back to the list plz :-)
The site shows we are using an Evaluation License. We should have
a full license if we are relying upon it.
I've requested an open source license from Atlassian, still pending
an answer from them.
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.
Yes, its trivial to alter the footer.
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?
I'm not sure exactly what you are referring too. Confluence is not a
forum, but it does have support for user comment threads, where
registered/anonymous users can add their .02 to a page. I think this
is very useful, especially for documentation. We don't want to open
up the pristine docs to let any user change them, but we want them to
have some input too. This is sorta like how the docs work at
php.net. There is a page that describes a feature, and then users
can comment on the page. I have found that more often than not, then
comments are more useful than the documentation.
I would however limit this to just comments.... and not discussion,
as it sometimes ends up to be on Atlassian's main Confluence site.
Anyways, with a little bit of oversight and active enforcement it is
really easy to keep things in check.
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.
Yes, Confluence can archive email, which does make Confluence a nice
single place to search for information. Though, the list archiving
is still a bit crude IMO.
--jason
