Happy New Year @Ian and @Stian and all! Things are going well. Keep
thinking I'll have time to do more than lurk, but not so far. :)

Looks like things are going well for you, too!

Cheers!

Gale

On Jan 18, 2018 6:22 AM, "Ian Dunlop" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Styling seems to have gone a bit crazy on the install guide “Configuration
> Property List” part, lot’s of bold headers. (http://taverna.staging.
> apache.org/documentation/server/3.1/install)
> In http://taverna.staging.apache.org/documentation/server/3.1/usage some
> of the code blocks haven’t rendered correctly, you can still see the ```xml
> markup in some places.
> Also why is the workflow state not rendered as a Taverna workflow (BTW
> that’s a joke 😉)
>
> Overall, good job.
> @Gale Happy New Year. Great to hear from you. Hope things are going well
> for you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Stian Soiland-Reyes
> Sent: 18 January 2018 12:41
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Taverna Server documentation
>
> I think we can say the distinction is if the documentation is
> code-related (stays in git aka GitHub) or user-related (stays on our
> website).  With Taverna Server it's a bit tighter together.. all the
> API examples could change from one release to another and easily be
> outdated.
>
> Agree on that the headers and code sections looks better in GtHub
> rendering.
>
> It could be that we can make some tweaks to our website CSS to make it
> more similar?
> I think we are using Bootstrap and a couple of custom overrides in
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-site/tree/trunk/content/css
>
> On 5 January 2018 at 15:50, Gale Naylor <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Happy New Year, all!
> >
> > I was only able to take a quick look on my phone. But the docs look
> pretty
> > good!
> >
> > Stian, what would be the advantage of the docs being on the Apache site
> vs
> > GitHub? I do like the headers and code sections better in GitHub.
> > Personally, the Apache CMS headings seem large and h1/h2 are fairly
> > similar. Also, I like the gray code rendering. But not a big deal.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Gale
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018, 7:18 AM Stian Soiland-Reyes <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >> >
> >>
>
>
>
> --
> Stian Soiland-Reyes
> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
>
>

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