Regarding the old docs: I kinda think it would be good to link to pretty much all of those same papers (assuming they're still available and that it's legal, blah, blah) that were up on the JPL site. Even if some of them are dated now, they provide historical context and something of an overview.
Otherwise, the one thing that I think would be OODT n00bs (like myself) would be a nice, up to date, overview that lays out "What are all these pieces, how do they fit together, and how does the whole system work?" Just jumping into what's at http://oodt.apache.org, it's not necessarily real apparent which piece (or pieces) are needed, which one to focus on first, etc. Maybe something of a "New User Overview"? I'd be happy to help with such a thing, but I currently lack the knowledge to contribute one myself. I'm still just going through the existing docs and muddling through, trying to get my head around it all. :-) Phil On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Cameron Goodale <[email protected]>wrote: > Phil, > > Thanks for the input. Documentation is always important and something I > have been trying to address. Currently our documentation is grouped by > component, and some of the more mature components have more documentation. > > For Example FileManager: > http://oodt.apache.org/components/maven/filemgr/ > > Has 3 Software Documentation Pages (one is still under construction) > > If you need more information on a specific component, or have suggestions > for including JPL Docs @Apache I welcome the input. I appreciate that you > took the time to dig around looking for our old docs. > > Best Regards, > > > Cameron > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Phillip Rhodes > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hey guys, quick question... I'm interested in getting more familiar with > > OODT, so I started poking around the website looking for docs. Then I > > started > > Googling for stuff, and at one time had found the old JPL page which had > > links to a lot of stuff on it. This is even mentioned in the OODT > > Incubator > > Proposal > > > > "There is a wealth of documentation available on OODT. The best starting > > point is the existing OODT JPL website (which will be ported to be > sync'ed > > or just a pointer to the Apache website)http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov"; > > > > But as far as I can tell, since the oodt.jpl.nasa.gov page was > re-pointed > > to > > oodt.apache.org, no corresponding documentation page was ever created > that > > links to that stuff. I was able to go through the Wayback Machine and > find > > the docs from the old site, but for the benefit of new-comers, it might > be > > good to > > recreate that here? Or if it has already been recreated, maybe the link > > should be more prominent? (I didn't find one, but maybe I just missed > it). > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Phil > > >
