Just wondering if anyone had looked at Alexandria.
http://jakarta.apache.org/alexandria/legacy/

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 00:31 -0500, Henri Yandell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, J Aaron Farr wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:49:08 -0500 (EST), Henri Yandell
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Interested in finding out if anyone else thinks this would be a good idea.
> >>
> >> Rather than have each subproject managing their release javadocs
> >> separately, I think it would be good if we treated the javadoc more like
> >> the releases. Located in a central location, perhaps mirrored, all
> >> versions available and perhaps with additional tools like ashkelon or
> >> multidoc to bring them together.
> >
> > I guess I'm hoping for something like:
> >
> >   http://api.apache.org/$group/$artifact/$version/
> 
> Sounds good, though possibly:
> 
> http://jakarta.apache.org/api/$subproject/$artifact/$version/
> 
> to get a prototype up and running.
> 
> > with features like
> >
> >   * download the javadocs
> 
> +1. Unsure how this would balance with the download pages.
> 
> >   * search javadocs
> 
> +1 long-term.
> 
> >   * have javadocs linked to source reference  (so maybe have an 'api'
> > and a 'src' directory)
> 
> Not hugely essential I think.
> 
> >   * have javadocs linked to each other
> 
> Would be very nice, but seems like a battle. We wouldn't want to rebuild 
> the javadoc as part of this, and might not be easy to find a way to munge 
> existing javadoc to point to each other. Also means dependency knowledge, 
> which version of Collections did this BeanUtils use.
> 
> >   * include test and taglib javadocs
> 
> +1 on taglibs. Test ones are less essential to start with I think.
> 
> > Plus it's got to be pretty simple to set this up or for projects to
> > contribute to it.
> 
> To start with, I'm generally thinking of a defined file structure in which 
> unzipped javadocs appear, a location for downloadable javadoc to be and a 
> front end to make it easy to get to the relevant javadoc.
> 
> A release would involve putting the new javadoc in place, adding it to the 
> front-end (hopefully in a one-line kind of way) and then creating a 
> downloadable zip.
> 
> Initial plan would be to propose a structure for the repository (I like 
> yours), go extract a lot of javadocs from our downloads to seed the 
> repository, and come up with a simple-front-end to let people use them.
> 
> An important requirement will be the need for a subproject/group to be 
> able to link to a page that defines their javadoc, rather than at the top 
> level.
> 
> Hen
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