As far as I know, you can give edit rights to anyone with the link.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Google docs only work in my opinion if the following are true:
>
> 1. People who want to read and comment on them can do so without requesting
> permission
> 2. Ownership is not tied to one person, so that if someone stops
> contributing to Impala, the rest of the contributors can still make changes
> to the document as needed.
>
> Is that the case for google docs?
>
> On 20 July 2016 at 16:18, Marcel Kornacker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I meant this really for documents where we expect a good amount of
>> discussion. Design docs and proposals are certainly in that category.
>>
>> Is there anything in that category that you would like to exclude?
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I think that's overkill. There are few documents that don't need
>> > comments (I really tried to come up with one. Something written in
>> > Linear A?)
>> >
>> > I also don't think Google docs are really ideal for a shared,
>> > long-lived document managed by a diverse community.
>> >
>> > 1. The revision history tooling is weak.
>> >
>> > 2. Contributors have to be granted write access to docs one doc at a
>> time.
>> >
>> > 3. Multi-document search is basically non-existent.
>> >
>> > 4. Automatic directories of all documents associated with a project is
>> > not possible.
>> >
>> > 5. Google Takeout will not be able to distinguish which documents are
>> > associated with the project, so if we ever have to migrate, we'll have
>> > to do it one document at a time.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Marcel Kornacker <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> How about we scope that to everything that needs revisions/comments?
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Henry Robinson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>> 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
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Henry Robinson
>> >>> Software Engineer
>> >>> Cloudera
>> >>> 415-994-6679
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Henry Robinson
> Software Engineer
> Cloudera
> 415-994-6679

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