On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Dan Becker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Luciano Resende wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Dan Becker <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Luciano Resende wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Dan Becker <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Luciano Resende wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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 ?
>>>>>>
>>>>> I am thinking more along the line of what the user sees for the Tuscany
>>>>> website after the wikis are exported to the world. Is the user going to
>>>>> see
>>>>> several site versions, e.g:
>>>>> http://tuscany.apache.org  (latest)
>>>>> http://tuscany.apache.org/1.5 (previous release)
>>>>> http://tuscany.apache.org/1.4 (previous release)
>>>>>
>>>>> Or is the user going to see several article versions on one site?,
>>>>> e.g.:
>>>>> http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-user-guide.html (latest)
>>>>> http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-user-guide-1.5.html (previous
>>>>> version)
>>>>> http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-user-guide-1.4.html (previous
>>>>> version)
>>>>>
>>>>>  What kind of release specific information do you think we are going to
>>>> have in the website, if we remove the documentation out to the wikis ?
>>>>
>>>>  I don't propose removing documentation from the wikis or changing any
>>> part
>>> of your proposal for the wikis on the thread.
>>>
>>> I am just wondering what the version scheme will look like when the
>>> various
>>> files reach the web site. What will customers see? Where will a customer
>>> look for articles of the 1.x flavor versus the articles of the 2.x
>>> flavor?
>>>
>>>
>> Haaa, I think I got your question now, we would have something (but
>> probably not exactly) like this :
>>
>> http://db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html
>>
>> Or just a link on our website pointing to the wiki documentation
>>
>>
>
> Excellent example! I like their organization. Notice for example that the
> developers guide follows this kind of structure for the HTML pages:
> http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.3/devguide/
> http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.2/devguide/
> http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.1/devguide/
>
> This is similar to the idea I prefered above:
>
> >>>> http://tuscany.apache.org  (latest)
> >>>> http://tuscany.apache.org/1.5 (previous release)
> >>>> http://tuscany.apache.org/1.4 (previous release
>
> --
> Thanks, Dan Becker
>


+1, would be really good if we can have the doc versioned like that on the
website.

   ...ant

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