On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suggest doing a migration to svnpubsub first and switch to Markdown or 
> whatever else we want to
> use for documentation generation later. It's the autoexport that's going 
> away, not Confluence itself.
>

How would that work?  Edit on Confluence, sure, but then what?  How
would the Confluence content get exported as HTML so that svnpubsub
can publish?

> Also, we won't need any Django knowledge. The CMS' architecture might be 
> influenced by Django but
> you certainly don't need to know anything about it in order to work with the 
> CMS.

There's a bit of configuration that seems to be used to match source
documents to the correct template, based primarily on containing
folder.

>
> Automatically generated source code documentation might indeed be a problem. 
> We should find out how
> other projects are doing this. I don't like the idea of checking it back into 
> SVN as part of the
> build process.
>
> Uli
>
> On 01.08.2012 21:15, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
>> I think it's time that we switch over from Confluence to the CMS
>>
>> http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
>>
>> Looks like the CMS is going to be SVN regardless
>>
>> I'm hoping someone can volunteer to spearhead this; if not, I'll look
>> into it in a week or so.
>>
>> The docs kind of presume a lot of knowledge of some version of Django,
>> which I certainly don't have.
>>
>> I think markdown will be a fine format.  I like that it will be
>> possible to navigate to a page and click an edit button. It should be
>> possible to open up our site repo to any Apache committer.
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what we'll do about published JavaDocs (and,
>> potentially, other reports, such as JavaScript/CoffeeScript docs).
>> Possibly, we'll need to generate those into an SVN folder and check
>> them into SVN for publishing to the site.
>>
>> I'm hoping the result will be something faster and easier to maintain,
>> and more customizable as well.
>>
>
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