Hi! First of all: thanks Bart, that would be way cool if you could help us with pimping our documentation!
For the legal question: Actually contains of 2 parts: All people who like to write articles in our Wiki need to have a CLA [1] on file. This is just to make sure that the ASF cannot get blamed for 'stealing' things from somewhere. Just send the signed&scanned iCLA to [email protected] and that's all from the ASF side. The other legal aspect is if you can reuse parts of your book. Please ask for the ok of your publisher. Usually that's not a big deal because they are happy about such ads ;) But it has to be done, just to make sure. All: I know the wiki/CMS is a community project, but if the contribution is homogenuous and reaches a certain size, then I think we can also add a preposition containing something like "Parts of this article are taken from and based upon Bart Kummels Book 'Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application Development', packtpub publishing 2009". Not sure how we express the grant to publish it on our wiki though... All, is this ok from a community perspective? Bart i,s this ok from an Authors perspective? Any more input? Or should we check with legal or board to be sure? LieGrue, strub [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt --- On Fri, 2/4/11, Gerhard <[email protected]> wrote: From: Gerhard <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [myfaces site] community information To: "MyFaces Development" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 3:58 PM as far as i know the publisher supports open-source projects.however, we have to think about possible issues.maybe a patch with "Grant license to ASF for inclusion in ASF works (as per the Apache License §5)" would be a good idea (before we commit the final text). regards,gerhard http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2011/2/4 Gerhard <[email protected]> great to hear that you will have time for an initial brainstorming! regards,gerhard http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2011/2/4 Bart Kummel <[email protected]> Hi all, I discussed this with Gerhard via IM. I will put some drafts on the wiki page he created next week. I plan to re-use some texts from my book, which by itself is a good introduction to MyFaces, also for non-maven projects. Best regards,Bart On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:57, Gerhard <[email protected]> wrote: i've created a page [1] in our dev-wiki for brainstorming. regards,gerhard [1] http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Drafts/Site http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2011/2/3 Gerhard <[email protected]> thx for the hint mark! regards,gerhard http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2011/2/3 Mark Struberg <[email protected]> +1 for better community doku +0 for wiki. There is the new Apache CMS [1] out now, and a few projects already move their documentation stuff over from the wiki to the CMS (tool for it see [2]). We should at least take a look at it before we put effort into a wiki which might get replaced soon. LieGrue, strub [1] http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheCms2010 [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/conversion-utilities/cwiki --- On Thu, 2/3/11, Gerhard <[email protected]> wrote: From: Gerhard <[email protected]> Subject: [myfaces site] community information To: "MyFaces Development" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 7:02 PM hi @ all, i was told that it isn't easy to find all the basic information about our community. imo:we should re-write e.g. the "Welcome to the Apache MyFaces Project" section. the introduction should be more community centric and we should also re-visit the other parts of the page.furthermore, we should start/continue with our new wiki [1]. regards, gerhard [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYFACES http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces -- ___________________________________________________________ Bart Kummel Author of the book Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application Development blog: BK | twitter: @bkummel
