We can back out with Conluence's versioning for pages.
But if we elect to rsync from the AutoExport dir to SVN and use the
normal SVN mechanism to publish then we can do any kind of staging we
want. Disable the automated sync, use the AutoExport URL to test/
validate major work, then when its ready to go, run a manual sync and
then enable the auto sync... er something like that.
We are free to invent any procedure we need to support our goals for
site management and maintenance.
--jason
On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
Is there anyway to back out changes or make them atomic? Once nice
thing about the existing process is that people can stage changes
and make them live in an instant. Perhaps that is not a huge deal
but I prefer not having the site in a state of flux while people
are accessing it.
Jason Dillon 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
