Hi,

this topic popped up a couple of times in the past - given the current spam 
incident in the Apache confluence wikis, a few more restrictions were put into 
place for editing pages in the wiki:

> removed any editing access for the confluence-users group. From now on, if
> someone wants to edit your wiki, you have to whitelist them specifically. You
> can do this if they are a committer by listing them in the 'Individual
> Users' section of the Space Permissions area, or by asking that they be
> added to the special 'asf-cla' wiki group - we will check that they have a
> iCLA on file before adding them.

Given the need to whitelist everyone who wants to do changes to the wiki pages 
I wonder whether it makes sense to move most of our docs over to Apache CMS 
(except maybe for the most volatile pages, if there are any). 

The obvious disadvantage would be a higher barrier of entry for people 
providing docs (though prior to being whitelisted one would have to express 
the intent to provide improvments on the mailing list anyway). The advantage 
could be a clearer path towards committership for those not working on code 
but on technical writing.

The only question concerning the move to Apache CMS I have: How easy is it to 
provide documentation for individtual released versions? Would it be possible 
to e.g. bundle the then current docs with the release?


Isabel

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