I updated
https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server/blob/master/usage.md
to include some table of content - it's still very long and could
probably be split into multiple pages.

As I fixed some things in its example XML I think it would be cumbersome
to also maintain a OpenOffice version, so I removed those.

Would this documentation live in GitHub as it is now, or as
separate pages under
https://taverna.incubator.apache.org/documentation/server/ ? 

I had a quick go:

http://taverna.staging.apache.org/documentation/server/3.1/
http://taverna.staging.apache.org/documentation/server/3.1/install
http://taverna.staging.apache.org/documentation/server/3.1/usage

Stylistically I think those look quite nice.. your views?

(Compare with GitHub rendering
https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server/blob/master/install.md
https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server/blob/master/usage.md
)

Note as I just copied from GitHub, that there are a couple of MarkDown
differences that makes the /usage examples look broken or perhaps too red.



On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 11:12:04 +0000, Stian Soiland-Reyes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had a look at the documentation included in the Taverna Server git
> repository https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server
> 
> Both install and usage are quite extensive, and describes both how to
> install it and how the services are invoked.
> 
> For some reason these where in the repository as binary PDF and DOCX
> files which personally I find a bit odd for a server product.
> 
> They also had some outdated references to Univ of Manchester and
> Taverna 2.5.
> 
> 
> So I changed it to more open formats MarkDown and ODT and added the
> Apache License headers:
> 
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server/blob/master/install.md
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server/blob/master/install.odt
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server/blob/master/usage.md
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-server/blob/master/usage.odt
> 
> Some more tidy-up could be done (e.g. use ```code``` blocks for the XML
> examples).
> 
> 
> The documentation seems very overlapping (or equal) to the 2.5
> Taverna Server documentation that also lives online in the old wiki:
> 
> https://taverna.incubator.apache.org/documentation/server/
> 
> .. but I have not checked this page by page.
> 
> 
> 
> What do you think: 
> 
> Is the Markdown version more or less maintainable?
>   (e.g. the tables can get messy)
> 
> Do we keep maintaining the OpenDocument versions (packaged as PDF in release)?
> 
> Do we keep the Markdown documentation as part of the git repository (and
> hence the Taverna Server distribution), or move it to the
> taverna.apache.org website? (it would probably work out of the
> box)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stian Soiland-Reyes
> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
> 

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