FYI: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5647

On 11.12.2012 20:19, Ulrich Stärk wrote:
> Yes, I want to see something like what you describe as well. Ideally 
> something that can also
> generate different output formats like PDF and HTML. But we won't have that 
> by Jan 1. So the
> short-term goal is to take a first step, convert to svnpubsub, but keep our 
> existing documentation
> sources.
> 
> Uli
> 
> On 11.12.2012 19:55, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
>> And what's the point at which the cost of doing this exceeds the cost of
>> switching to a proper tool?  I see Confluence as an impediment to writing
>> documentation; it is very slow, the markup language is poorly thought out
>> and idiosyncratic, and the publishing mechanism is
>> chewing-gum-and-bailing-wire.
>>
>> I would prefer a tool that treated documentation source as source files,
>> and made it easy to generate documentation in multiple formats, and easy to
>> adapt to our purposes. I want a tool that lets me be DRY. I want a tool
>> that can access actual Java source code and include it into a page, so that
>> we can ensure our samples are accurate.
>>
>> I'm on a hunt for such a tool.  Our process would then be: check out
>> documentation source, compile it HTML in a SVN workspace, check that
>> workspace in, see it live.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> we'll probably copy it over, monitor changes to the original and
>>> incorporate them when we know that
>>>
>>
> 
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