On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Hernan Cunico wrote:
I completely disagree.
I believe that Geronimo should also use Confluence to support
generation of the website. Aside from a few minor issues, and the
lag time from export to live, I don't see any reason not to use
Confluence in this manner. It has been on my TODO list for quite
some time, I did an initial POC, but got sucked up into TCK-land
which has been taking up most of my time.
I actually don't think that the current Geronimo website xdoc
+script thing is very good and it should go soon. Its not very
friendly, people tend to forget steps and corrupt the site, and
its not easy to add new content to.
I know, we are all sucked up into other priorities that we need to
attend to. The POC in the cwiki looks great (I would chop off the
JIRAs from the home page though ;-) and once we get those plugin
issues fixed we should move over Confluence right away. I'll help
out in any way I can ;-)
But, until we get there, we should not disrupt what we have working
today, no matter how much we would like to be using a different tool.
I think we could be there... just needs a wee bit more love. I don't
see any of the bugs in AE as blockers.
The biggest issue for me was I hated the 1+ hour sync time from cwiki
change to live content... that really pissed me off and I ended up
dropping at the time.
btw, let's discuss the plugin issues and solutions on a different
thread, let me know when you have some time to look at it because
I've been also trying to get some fixed already. AFAIK there is no
other place for keeping track (discussing actually) of this issues
and fixes other than http://could.it/bugs/browse/EXP
Whats to discus? I'm aware of some of the problems... but I don't
think that any of them prevent us from using the GMOxSITE space for
geronimo.apache.org.
Blah... each different part of the site has a slightly different
look to it... I don't think this matters all that much right now.
While once we get all websites into Confluence, then I think it
should be easy enough to get them all kinda looking the same.
We do have a consistent look & feel all across the web site, we
should keep it that way
Eh... yes and no... click on the user/dev list links in the top-nav,
or the issue tracker. Or click on any link that takes you to cwiki.
Aside from the hideous mbox junk and jira, the only thing that is
consistent is *part* of the page header (the blue bar with the G logo).
I don't consider this really consistent.
Bottom line, I think we should be consistent in the way we
present the web site and the way we maintain it.
Sure, and lets be consistent and use Confluence ;-)
Be careful what you wish for, another joining subproject could come
in using MS Front Page :-0
Highly, highly, highly... HIGHLY... unlikely :-P
--jason
