On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

okay, thanks Guillaume, that exactly meets my personal impression.
I think, from a users perspective today the following "entities" are most
relevant:

OPS4J TOOLS:
Pax Runner / Pax Exam -> High Level developer tooling
Possible additions: Pax Construct
Probably most document critical because using them requires understanding.

OPS4J BUNDLES:
Pax Web + Pax Logging -> Both a service implementations
Possible additions: Pax Shell & Useradmin

OPS4J Foundation:
Pax Tinybundles +Pax URL + (soon) Pax Repository: Foundation of the
aforementioned projects. Not necessary for users but useful to understand &
problem solving. Crucial when developing the projects mentioned above.



>
> > - 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.
>

That sounds really good.
Will look at that next to the sonatype solution. If its not the same anyway.


>
> > 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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