On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Dan Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a good proposal Luciano. I like the idea of "branching" the docs.
> Just as the Sun JDKs provide versioned docs from the 1.0 days to the current
> 1.6 days, I too would like to see versioned Tuscany docs.
>
> In addition to versioned wiki spaces, we might want to think about versioned
> public pages. Right now there is an export plugin that moves the wiki pages
> to the external site html pages. Perhaps we need to branch the tuscany web
> site so there would be a "latest" html snap shot at
> http://tuscany.apache.org and earlier "versioned" html snap shots, perhaps
> at http://tuscany.apache.org/1.4, etc.
>

What problem are you trying to solve here ? Confluence is much like
SVN and provides a change history for each page. Would that be ok for
website ?

> Much of our site shows up here [1] in the svn repos, perhaps we need to add
> versions under this point in the repos.
>
> [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/site/
>
> Luciano Resende wrote:
>>
>> As we discussed in [1], please take a look at a proposed structure to
>> use as our Java SCA Documentation for both 1.x and 2.x development
>> streams.
>>
>> The idea is to have two separate wikis, where we would have the latest
>> documentation for each of the development streams, and during the
>> releases we would export a snapshot of the wiki space and make it
>> available either online in our website, or as a doc distribution. The
>> concept of "guide books" would allow us to group related contents, and
>> the new navigation outline in the left gives the user a better user
>> experience, and is built automatically by Confluence based on the page
>> name and hierarchy. Please take a look at the initial contents in the
>> 2.x Documentation space [3] and it's PDF version that we could use in
>> a release [4] and provide feedback.
>>
>> If people are OK, I can spend some time documenting some "usage
>> guidelines" to make sure the generated outline give us the right
>> navigation benefits and exporting does not contain unwanted navigation
>> markup; and then we could start migrating more of the contents from
>> our website to the new wikis.
>>
>> Thoughts ?
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04344.html
>> [2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYxDOCx1x/Index
>> [3] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYxDOCx2x/Index
>> [4]
>> http://people.apache.org/~lresende/tuscany/doc/TUSCANYxDOCx2x-20090203-16_21_57.pdf
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks, Dan Becker
>



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Luciano Resende
Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk
http://people.apache.org/~lresende
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