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] >
