Seems reasonable, but I propose we scope that only to design documents
(which require revisions and comments).

FWIW, Kudu includes building-from-source instructions on their website
(which I think is nicely done):
http://kudu.apache.org/docs/installation.html#_build_from_source

I'm happy with most content going on the wiki.

On 20 July 2016 at 09:44, Marcel Kornacker <[email protected]> wrote:

> A lot of our developer docs are Google docs, which facilitate
> commenting, and it would be good to keep it that way.
>
> Should we link to those docs from the Apache Impala wiki?
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Tim Armstrong <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I also think the wiki is the best approach.
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I think Tom's points are correct.
> >>
> >> Another option would be plain text or markdown files inside the git
> >> repo. Those would be harder to update, but then would have review for
> >> developer docs changes, which might be nice.
> >>
> >> FWIW, right now getting a wiki login requires asking for one on this
> >> mailing list because of spambots.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:37 AM, Tom White <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Dimitris Tsirogiannis
> >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> Hi community,
> >> >>
> >> >> We need to move our developer documentation to a proper location.
> >> >> Currently, it's in Cloudera's internal wiki and in the wiki pages of
> the
> >> >> Cloudera Impala git repo (
> >> >> https://github.com/cloudera/Impala/wiki/Contributing-to-Impala).
> >> >>
> >> >> The options are:
> >> >> * Impala's webpage (http://impala.io/)
> >> >
> >> > This is moving to http://impala.incubator.apache.org/, so it's the
> >> > equivalent of the third option (below), isn't it?
> >> >
> >> >> * Apache hosted Impala wiki (
> >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IMPALA/Impala+Home)
> >> >
> >> > This is probably the best since a wiki is the most frictionless way of
> >> > updating dev docs.
> >> >
> >> >> * Apache hosted Impala webpage (http://impala.incubator.apache.org/)
> >> >> * The wiki pages of the Apache Impala git repo (
> >> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-impala)
> >> >
> >> > This isn't hosted on ASF infrastructure (unlike source code which is
> >> > mirrored), so I think we can rule this one out.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Tom
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Please state your preference.
> >> >>
> >> >> Dimitris
> >>
>



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