Jason, nice work! Using a wiki for the website will make it easier
to make changes to the website. This also allows the website to take
advantage of the many bells and whistles in Confluence.
A few questions:
security -- how will edit access be restricted? as you know right now
only a committer with an ASF account can change the website (which IMO
is a good thing). how will that ACL translate to the wiki site and
how will it be maintained?
performance -- the site seems pretty snappy to me but I have heard
some rumblings about confluence performance. can it handle being
slashdotted?
flexibility -- is the wiki flexible enough to handle any html/css that
we can throw at it? for example, the current design was donated by
Epiq a while back and IIUC integrating it into existing website
template system was pretty straightforward. does confluence present
any limitations that would make this type of activity more difficult?
maintenance -- how much Confluence expertise will it require to
maintain the site, especially if we start using custom plugins, etc?
how hard would it be to migrate the site contents to a different Wiki
system or to revert back to a "standard" website if that became
necessary?
Again I really like the work you've done and think it shows a lot of promise.
Best wishes,
Paul
On 7/25/06, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had been wanting to use Confluence as the primary Geronimo website
for a while now... and finally just went and created proof of concept
that it might actually work... check out:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxSITE/
Looks familiar? It should, cause its the same layout that we have on
http://geronimo.apache.org (with a new minor changes).
I have not done much content wise... but I did get all of the side
navigation pages setup and rendering from "SideNav *" pages (each has
its own page)... though most of those links point to non-existent
pages (hence the +).
Looks like there is a still a bit more work that needs to be done to
refine the autoexpert plugin... like the news links in the "Geronimo
News" section which are Confluence news pages link you to the
Confluence page, not the exported page (http://cwiki.apache.org/
GMOxSITE/2006/07/25/test-news-post.html).
Also some more dynamic stuff, like adding new news does not
automatically export the pages. I think this is okay, we can auto
export on a periodic schedule to get around this limitation... or
just fix the plugin to be a tad more intelligent.
I've attached the vsl if anyone is interested to see the magic needed
to get autoexport to do this...
* * *
Anyways, something to think about... I think its got a lot of
potential (or I would not still be up at 3am hacking on it) :-)
--jason
