Hi

2010/5/21 Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]>

> On 20.05.2010 04:19, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
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>> I'd be interested to hear what the other developers see as must-haves
>> for a 5.2.  I know I'd like to see what's going on with the new
>> Confluence documentation.
>>
>
> Confluence documentation seems to work like a charm. For starters I
> migrated the cookbook to confluence. There is one thing we should consider
> though. The ASF is planning to move away from confluence being abused as a
> CMS and will install a full CMS in the very near future. They'll start
> experimenting with Day's CQ5 in the next few weeks and want to discontinue
> Confluence as a CMS by the end of the year (though I doubt that they
> actually will because too many projects are using it that way and all the
> content will have to be migrated).
> I've offered infrastructure to be a pilot tester and will help evaluate the
> new CMS and see if it would fit for us. There is no sense in migrating to
> Confluence now when it will be discontinued in a year or something but that
> needs further discussion.
>

In my humble opinion, documentation remains a key point and moving from
confluence to cq5 shouldn't stop what has been initiated by you with
confluence. As you said too many projects are using confluence as a CMS,
also i guess it has an XML export feature or something like this that will
leverage the migration process. I don't know cq5 but if it's a good tool it
should have an import feature as well.

Also, i think that most of the work with the documentation is to
re-structure, fix and complete the existing one built with Maven. This is
why i would like to see for 5.2 an appealing front page for Tapestry 5 that
provides efficient link to documentation (confluence or maven at least) and
important contributions, third party libraries...

As an exemple, we have the component reference that is an efficient Javadoc
like tool, but it is not enough emphasized by the actual design, existing
first page contains to much information and the existing content is not
accessible enough for newcomers.

Sorry to focus again on documentation but the first step has been made with
Confluence, and the discussion has been so long that we should'nt stop now
or even stand by.



What about the new hot reloading feature, at that time it is designed for
development purpose, but it would be so great to make it available
programmatically for production environment. I know this is a complex thing
to achieve, but for maintenance and monitoring of applications it would be
nice to have for exemple the ability of doing a full registry restart and
make the application off for a period of time (system administrator's dream
:) I don't think we are so far from it. Maybe for a 5.3.

Regards,
Christophe Cordenier.


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Regards,
Christophe Cordenier.

Developer of wooki @wookicentral.com

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