I really like having everything under version control!

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Sebastian Hennebrueder
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have no experience with confluence and can only point out the advantages
> of a Jekyll like approach.
>
> Before I had a Content Management System for my website and switched over to
> Jekyll for a number of reasons
>
> opening a file to edit is faster
> in a shell:
> myEditor folder/someFile
>
> finding something in all files is fast
> in a shell:
> grep -r foo *
>
> a editor can replace text across all files, A CMS or WIKI can't
>
> A CMS or Wiki is only fast if the internet connection is fast
>
> Preview for textile and markdown in TextMate is fast
>
> Save and continue work later is no problem
>
> Adding images is faster, just add them to the repository and use them
>
> Offline writing is possible
>
> Everything is in a version control system
>
> To summarize: We need to decide if we want to make editing simpler or
> contributing my multiple persons and possibly simpler deployment.
>
> Considering deployment, I have no issue for my website. I use a hook which
> is executed on push of the git repo. It regenerates the website. The
> deploying effort is zero.
>
> With Jekyll we could even adapt it to our needs if required. I am not sure,
> if we can modify anything in Confluence.
>
> --
> Best Regards / Viele Grüße
>
> Sebastian Hennebrueder
> -----
> Software Developer and Trainer for Hibernate / Java Persistence
> http://www.laliluna.de
>
>
>
> Ulrich Stärk schrieb:
>>
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>> The Confluence approach has several advantages:
>>
>> 1. The website gets generated automatically from the wiki contents. Other
>> output formats are supported as well. We will have a CMS-like system with
>> access control and everything. It might be possible to give out write access
>> to contributors who want to help with documentation but don't need access to
>> the source repository.
>> 2. This setup is well supported at the ASF and widely used by other
>> projects (OpenMQ, Wicket, CXF, Directory, Geronimo, ...).
>> 3. It requires minimal setup because almost everything is already in
>> place. Just some plumbing is needed.
>>
>> Using Jekyll it will again be necessary to publish the site manually. I
>> don't see the advantage to our current approach.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Uli
>>
>> On 26.02.2010 17:43, Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote:
>>>
>>> Ulrich Stärk schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> It has and this is also the recommended approach since documentation
>>>> is considered part of the product. Only individuals who have signed a
>>>> CLA should be allowed to edit the docs.
>>>>
>>>> Uli
>>>>
>>>> On 26.02.2010 15:07, Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:01:06 -0300, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess we will have two versions of the documentation: latest (trunk)
>>>>>> and stable (5.1 for now).
>>>>>
>>>>> +1 to that. Does the wiki has any access control}? If so, we can hava
>>>>> the main documentation editable only by committers and have some are
>>>>> where people can contribute pages.
>>>>>
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>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> there was a discussion thread recently on this topic and though I posted
>>> little, I have experimented with other solutions and discussed possible
>>> options offline with Howard.
>>>
>>> I planned to bring my ideas to the mailing list the next days. I have
>>> experimented with Jekyll for my new webpages it is a static site
>>> generator which is blog aware. It supports rendering of normal pages +
>>> blog like pages. The latter could be used for news for example.
>>>
>>> I wanted to do an experiment with Tapx to see if it could be an
>>> alternative.
>>>
>>> The nice thing is that it provides very nice markup alternatives:
>>> textile and markup. Both are somehow Wiki like and very efficient to
>>> use. Files can include plain HTML as well and syntax highlighting is
>>> supported with Pygments for all kind of source code.
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> Sample of my new website to come with source code highlighting
>>> http://test.laliluna.de/articles/jsf-2-evaluation-test.html
>>> Jekyll
>>> http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
>>>
>>> I hope to be able to continue working on this next week. As far as I
>>> remember we got stuck, when deciding about the new layout.
>>>
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