On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:54, Toni Menzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gang,
>
> Reading the Gradle Userguide PDF offline while being on the ride [2] it
> stuck to me: I felt very comfy & home when knowing there is a PDF on my disk
> that covers all i need for a OSS tool to work start with.
>
> This is the same thing that Sonatype does with their Maven books for
> example.
>
> Also Hudson took that approach: [1]
>
> I think that would also be a good thing for the main OPS4J Projects.
>
> Sure, its a huge amount of work, but i think that really needs to be done
> for the Projects that we call almost "Product" status (in the OPS4J wiki
> there is also the distinction of Projects possibly raising up to Products
> when they mature).
>
> Not poking on the projects vs. product distinction here.. just maybe some
> projects need that step to benefit the user.
>
> On some other mailinglists (for example Apache Aries, who employs some Pax
> tools in their toolchain) sometimes i read about Pax Tools are not well
> documented. I think its not necesary true in all cases, but there is a
> reason for people telling that on a mailing list.
>
> So, what i would like to ask:
>
> - Which projects do you think need major, book-reference like documentation
> ?

Pax-Exam, Pax-Web, Pax-Url, Pax-Logging are the one are use a lot.  I
would think pax-exam is the most critical.

> - What do you recommended as a technical solution. Ultimatively i would like
> to have that in Html (online+offline) + PDF ? Also it needs to be strongly
> versioned.

In Karaf, we've switched our manual and main web site to a scalate
based one, hosted in svn (so easy to version, branch, etc..).
The sources are markup languages (confluence, markdown, etc...).
We're using princexml to create a pdf version.  The project is a maven
project which generate the static site (with a goal to upload it) and
a war.  It's also possible to run jetty to have a live updated
overview when you hack the sources.

> Not sure, possibly it makes sense to put that all in one "Pax" book. But the
> tooling stuff and Pax Web (a service) are quite different things.
>


> WDYT?
>
> Toni
>
> [1] http://www.hudson-ci.org/docs/index.html
> [2] http://gradle.org/0.9.2/docs/userguide/userguide.pdf
>
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