Hey Tom, This is a GREAT idea. Thanks for taking the initiative on this.
I see you've already made some significant improvements to the main OODT wiki page. Looks great. I might suggest we move the navigation box to the upper-left so that users don't need to scroll. Actually, if you don't mind, I may take a crack when you are done to also add some improvements as well. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/Home Thanks again! Rishi On Jul 15, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Thomas Bennett wrote: > Hey Tom, > > +1 from me. I'm keen to change it. > > Cheers, > Tom > > > On 12 July 2013 22:18, Tom Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi guys >> >> Whilst working on getting to know OODT better I walked through the CAS >> Curation tutorial on the website and found it both hard to read and buggy >> in places. I also (as a newbie) found getting started and tutorial stuff >> tricky to locate with bits being on the main website and some on the wiki. >> I guess this is left over from the Apache ingestion. >> >> I took the liberty of migrating the original Curation tutorial over to the >> wiki and made a few tweaks although I would like to improve this further >> over the next week or so: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OODT/** >> Deploying+and+using+CAS+**Curator<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/Deploying+and+using+CAS+Curator> >> >> My question is really this, is there a documentation policy with regards >> to creating stuff and guiding new users. Personally I feel that as much of >> the documentation as possible should be moved across to the wiki to allow >> users to develop and maintain it as OODT grows and changes (and allows >> people to fix errors). Also finding the wiki isn't very obvious from the >> main OODT website, I would suggest that whoever maintains the website puts >> the wiki link into the header or something allowing people easy access to >> it, otherwise its buried in various page menus. >> >> Having worked closely with a number of open source tools over the years, >> especially as a newbie, I find the wiki documentation invaluable in getting >> started and guiding new users, if no one has any objections I'd like to put >> some time and effort into organising the wiki and landing pages on their in >> a way that helps guide people in a more effective manner. This will clearly >> be extended as I learn more myself :) >> >> Cheers >> >> Tom >>
