I agree Fred... the reports are very helpful.  I've always thought of it as
handling two needs: "reports" and "docs"; reports basically working OOTB
and docs as the team decides to hand-create.


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Fred Cooke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, if you created it, then a personal thank you from me for that. I
> would never use it for normal web stuff, but for the autogenerated stuff
> like PMD, checkstyle, findbugs, cross ref code, javadocs, etc etc it's
> GREAT at release time to give you a reference of what was. Or during dev,
> when one feels like it, to create a comprehensive detailed view of the
> state of the code that can be casually navigated through using a browser.
> It has some SVNness in it, which I hate, so I invite you to continue the
> hate for your own reasons :-D
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Anyone interested in trying a Jekyll experiment for our website? Extract
> > the useful documentation we believe there is and try to make working on
> the
> > site a pleasurable experience that is easy for users to contribute to?
> >
> > I'd like to try this because after this last release I'm frankly tired of
> > looking at our pretty awful website. It's ugly, noisy, unmaintained, hard
> > to navigate and personally just makes me not want to write anything. I
> > would like to like writing documentation again and I think a more
> standard
> > tool like Jekyll will help. I honestly dislike doing core releases
> because
> > I have to use the site plugin. I created it, I can hate it and I do hate
> it.
> >
> > Even if no one answers I'll try this experiment because I think there's
> > only 10-15 useful documents in the whole site so it likely won't take
> long.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Jason van Zyl
> > Founder, Takari and Apache Maven
> > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
> > http://twitter.com/takari_io
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're
> > talking about.
> >
> >  -- John von Neumann
> >
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