Although I havent used Apache CMS markup (yet), this sounds like a
good move especially the "Good citizenship" bit. I had a look at the
converted site so far and it looks great to me. just my 2c.
Ian

On 23 April 2012 18:07, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 23.04.2012 um 08:36 schrieb Carsten Ziegeler:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> hmm, I'm wondering what our plan here is :) I know that we talked
>> about it long time ago, recently Bertrand tried to use some new
>> mechanism which would allow us to keep Confluence. I really have no
>> real preference but would like to keep to amount of work in this area
>> as low as possible.
>
> Confluence export and rsync will be disabled by the end of the year.
>
> There would be a a mechanism (IIRC Camel uses it) to regularly poll for 
> updates and convert them in to svnpubsub stuff. This polling and conversion 
> is IMHO brittle and prone for failure.
>
> I think migrating to Apache CMS has a number of advantages:
>
>  * We are in line with the ASF infra strategy (read "good citizenship")
>  * The conversion is a one-shot job
>  * Editing is as easy with CMS as with Confluence (IMHO once you get
>      used to markup)
>  * Less things to be maintained by us (nothing in fact)
>  * Possibility to propose updates as patches through JIRA
>  * The only thing we would have to change is, that only committers
>      are allowed to update. So we would have to invite some docu
>      people as committers (not a big deal for me).
>
> I think we should keep the Sling Wiki in Confluence, though.
>
> Regards
> Felix
>
>>
>> Regards
>> Carsten
>>
>> 2012/4/22 Felix Meschberger <[email protected]>:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am currently taking another stab at converting our Confluence site to use 
>>> the new ASF CMS.
>>>
>>> So, expect lots of commit messages while the site is being built for the 
>>> staging site. You can look at it (currently rather horrible ...) at 
>>> http://sling.staging.apache.org
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Felix
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Carsten Ziegeler
>> [email protected]
>

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