Morning all; now that we have a wiki to ourselves I would like to organize a bit (and move out of date documentation out of the way). In the last week I have watched a team waste hours and hours lost on the wiki - asking people to go to the IRC channel for help simply is *not* going to happen. Our docs have a simple story to tell and we are tripping up :-)
First of all the story: - checkout and run (using maven) - run and debug (in eclipse) - build a community module (making the point that you can contribute your own work) I am pleased to report that our docs are doing okay here; if the user can find the http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/Developers+Guide they can get to work. But what they actually do is type "Hello world geoserver" into google and end up here... - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/1+Hello+World+Service Which is part of some out of date OWS4 documentation (linking to the new site): - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/4+Modules So I would like to see a couple of things happen: 1) make a wiki space for each target audience (something I have done to for the udig confluence site and it helps: a) clear writing guidelines for the space b) you can export the space and have a document to follow) 2) remove ideas that did not work (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDEV/Home) is not used; we now do GSIP and we have not had anyone graduate a community module so the the need to write up documentation for "Acceptance" has not hit us yet. 3) move out of date "traps" like those above out of the way; or kill them Cater to new developers; or we won't have any :-) And SoC provides a perfect time to work on these docs. Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
