On 6/12/06, Hernan Cunico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As far as I can see, plugins are part of Geronimo and they should be in the 1.1 documentation space.
I diasgree. Plugins will be versioned separately from Geronimo, and will not all be developed by the Geronimo team. What will we do with the Geronimo 1.1 documentation if Plugin Foo is at version 1.0 when Geronimo 1.1 ships, but Plugin Foo goes through version 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 before Geronimo 1.2 ships? Will we constantly be updating the Geronimo 1.1 documentation? I don't think that makes sense. I think there should be a Plugins space with the Plugin Foo documentation. In the Geronimo 1.1 documentation we can include a list of known available plugins with references to their individual documentation pages, or we can actually repeat some common usage of popular plugins, but I don't think we should try to capture the current state of all plugins (and either have it get terribly outdated or need frequent changes to the "finished" parts of the 1.1 documentation).
The plan is, as I proposed several times in earlier emails, to move all the content from MoinMoin to Confluence. Most of the content in the MoinMoin is outdated or duplicated, the docs that are still valid should be moved to a section within the new structure in confluence. Those topics that don't fit either the User's or Developer's guide should go into the Geronimo SandBox space which is version independent. This space should hold historical data like the logo contest for example.
OK. Who's going to do that migration? Also, I have to say, I don't think that putting documentation in a different Wiki is going to automatically keep it up to date. It's a nice opportunity to clean up, but I imagine we'll need a regular cleaning process if we don't want our Wiki to get out of date. Thanks, Aaron
Aaron Mulder wrote: > I'd like to add some documentation for specific plugins to a Wiki. I > don't know if the plan is to migrate pretty much everything to > Confluence or only keep our main documentation there and use MoinMoin > for the rest or what. > > Still, if we're documenting available plugins, that's probably more or > less project documentation, and should go in Confluence anyway. Could > someone with admin access create an Apache Geronimo Plugins space? > (The plugins will be on a separate release track from Geronimo so I > don't think the plugin docs should necessarily go in the 1.1 docs.) > > Thanks, > Aaron >
