On 5/3/06, Hernan Cunico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Most of the documentation was uploaded into a JIRA and granted ASF license long time ago. I say most because the last updates have not been yet uploaded. Once we have cwiki.apache.org in production the license should no longer be an issue.
Are you saying that people can't just edit the Wiki without hosing up the documentation license? I guess there's not anywhere in the Wiki edit process that prompts you to grant copyright to the ASF. Does this mean we need Jira issues submitted with all documentation changes so that we can get the license check ticked? Thanks, Aaron
Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > > Hernan Cunico wrote: > >> I'll try to keep it short but can't help it, I like to write :) >> >> Aaron Mulder wrote: >> >>> While I grant that the proposed documentation page is sleeker in >>> appearance than the current library page, I prefer not to emphasize >>> any one source of documentation over the others. I am not >>> recommending that we make the documentation into the table of contents >>> for my book, nor that we turn it into the index of DeveloperWorks >>> articles pertinent to Geronimo, nor that we simply make it a list of >>> Geronimo books available at Amazon or Safari. Yet all of these are >>> probably valuable to people looking to get started with Geronimo. >> >> >> Where I am going with this idea is to try to get the things more clear >> around the web site and get more people participating in the >> documentation. I am not claiming as mine the documentation that is in >> Confluence, it is the Apache Geronimo's documentation and we ship an >> HTML version with Geronimo. >> >>> Hernan, I don't intend to be rude, but this is the second time you've >>> proposed this. Can you find a way to construct a nice-looking >>> documentation page that equally features all the sources of Geronimo >>> documentation, instead of turning it into a list of articles you've >>> contributed? I'll be happy to work with you on this if you need help >>> populating topics or highlights or blurbs for the documentation other >>> than your own. >> >> >> I would like to emphasize that I am not proposing to remove any of the >> current content but rather to add more content. I think it would be >> more organized to have online books, printed books, interviews, etc. >> listed under "Library" and the documentation listed under >> "Documentation". > > > If my understanding is correct you are suggesting that articles and > documentation where the copyright is owned by someone else be put in the > library and content that is ASF copyrighted be in the documentation > section. I think the distinction makes sense. So in your example > Hernan all the documentation you've provided is owned by the Geronimo > project and you have granted the copyright to the ASF? I think the > distinction makes sense. I very much would like to see a comprehensive > set of doc owned by the project as that would really improve a user's > experience. So long as we provide a prominent place for other people's > significant work as well I like this idea. > >> >> This is the Geronimo documentation. I have been nearly "begging" in >> the mailing lists for more people to contribute to the documentation >> and several people have already contributed. I (I should say we all) >> could really use your help filling up some of the blanks in the >> current confluence based documentation. >> >>> And on the subject of the Confluence documentation, perhaps we (the >>> community, I know this is not entirely in Hernan's control) should >>> consider revising the page headers. Right now they tend to include >>> something like: >>> >>> "Added by Tom Smith, last edited by Tom Smith ... (bold) Article >>> donated by: Tom Smith" >>> >>> I don't think that's actually productive. To be honest, I think it >>> probably discourages contributions. For example, if someone in the >> >> >> All wikis behave alike in that aspect. If I create a new page my name >> will get stuck to that page as "Added by ..." but it will also reflect >> the last person who modified it as "last edited by ..." That is the >> way the wikis have for tracking changes. >> >> Either way, I agree with you. I would prefer no names at all to be >> listed and the cool thing about the cwiki.apache.org is that we can >> customize the HTML cached view so we will not have to deal with this >> issue anymore :) >> >>> community writes some content and supplies it as a patch, the page >>> will still say "Added by (some committer), last edited by (some >>> committer)". That's not entirely fair. And if someone sees a typo in >>> an article that says in bold at the top "Article donated by: Tom >>> Smith", are they supposed to fix it? If so, should it be "Article >>> donated by: Tom Smith and John Doe" or "Article donated by: Tom Smith >>> with updates from John Doe" or just leave it as "Article donated by: >>> Tom Smith" but "last edited by John Doe" or what? Even if we had a >>> policy I think it would be a mental barrier to actually updating the >>> page. >> >> >> Well, you do not need to be a committer to work on any article, you >> just need to register in Confluence (just like with any other wiki) >> and pour your content there. To mitigate the "de facto" [Added by...] >> / [last edited by...], the "Article donated by:..." line was manually >> incorporated to each article. I thought it would actually encourage >> more people to contribute. The whole point behind this idea is to >> have more people interested in contributing to the documentation. >> >> I also believe that by initially creating a structure/placeholders it >> should be easier for anyone to pick a subject and start writing about >> it as well as providing new topics to cover. >> >>> I think it would be better overall if the Wiki documentation pages had >>> no credits at all, and we just let the editorial history live in the >>> Info page, and we invite the community to be active in authoring and >>> updating the Wiki pages. Do others agree? Can that be arranged? >> >> >> I totally agree with you, we should all be more proactive encouraging >> the community to contribute to the documentation too. >> >> I currently don't know how to remove the "WHOs" from confluence but >> I'm looking how to do it. >> >> Thanks for the feedback, I know you guys are very busy closing JIRAS. >> >> Cheers! >> Hernan >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Aaron >>> >>> On 5/2/06, Hernan Cunico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> when we updated the web site we mainly focused on the look & feel >>>> but left the existing navigational >>>> structure pretty much untouched. >>>> >>>> I propose we update some of the structure starting with the >>>> documentation section. Currently there >>>> are two links pointing to the same resource, these are >>>> *Documentation* and *Library*. Today we have >>>> an official documentation for v1.0 and we are working on the doc for >>>> v1.1, in addition there is the >>>> "Developers Guide" also being developed. >>>> >>>> All these are the documentation that should be pointed from the >>>> "Documentation" link. What is >>>> currently pointed from both "Documentation" and "Library" links >>>> should be just pointed from >>>> "Library". We will also need to update the Geronimo Administration >>>> Console to reflect this changes >>>> as the documentation is pointed as the "Additional documentation" link. >>>> >>>> The documentation today is hosted on an external site (Atlassian) >>>> but we are working with the ASF >>>> infrastructure team to get a local high performance installation >>>> (cwiki.apache.org). Until we >>>> resolve the ASF local installation I think we could point directly >>>> to the remote articles from our >>>> site. This might be easier to explain by an example so I put >>>> together a copy of the Geronimo web >>>> site with the proposed changes, see "Library" and "Documentation" >>>> links (note that the rest of the >>>> site may not be entirely up-to-date) >>>> >>>> Here is the test URL: >>>> >>>> http://people.apache.org/~hcunico/site/ >>>> >>>> I think these proposed changes will facilitate access to the >>>> documentation, increase it's visibility >>>> and hopefully we will see more volunteers to continue developing the >>>> docs. >>>> >>>> Thoughts, comments, suggestions!? >>>> >>>> Cheers! >>>> Hernan >>>> >>> >> >> >> >
