Ben Caradoc-Davies ha scritto:
> Thanks a lot, Andrea for your feedback. I will make the changes you 
> suggest, as they are good. I have commented on a few below:
> 
> Andrea Aime wrote:
>> Looked a bit into it. Some general feedback:
>> - the tutorial assumes familarity with SVN, it would be nicer to provide 
>> a link to a zipped file with everything needed to setup the tutorial
> 
> The config includes a build.xml to create the zip (this is the usual way 
> I distribute my configs), but would the zipped file need to go in SVN to 
> be included in the docs? I need to understand :download:.

Hmm... not much of an help here. I think David posted a mail on the
subject not long ago. We should add his wisdom to the sphix guide.

>> - the tutorial uses property files. Developers are comfortable with 
>> them, but I think no normal user has ever seen that data source in 
>> action. Some explanation about it is probably required
> 
> Is there a property file tutorial or documentation for 
> PropertyDataSource in the user or developer manual?

Hmmm... I don't think so. Actually we have a Jira somewhere requesting
to remove the property datastore from the stores that ship along
with GeoServer because it caused confusion.
The only "documentation" that I remember is the reason why the property
data store was created in the first place, that is, as a tutorial
for making new datastores:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/Old+Creating+a+DataStore+Tutorial
Then it was picked up for testing and became an officially supported
datastore for GeoTools, but afaik there is no much extra documentation
for it. Jody (cc'ed) might know more.

I think we already removed it for 1.7.x, thought it still shows up in 
trunk. However, removing it  would break your demo... hmmm....

>> - in gml:id mapping, why OCQL? I've heard of ECQL (extended) but never
>>    about OCQL
> 
> Neither have I. This term was used before I joined the project. I have 
> emailed some likely suspects for an explanation.
> 
>> Finally, I'm a little concerned about the many referencing to your
>> wiki... as in, how long is that wiki going to be around? Plus, say you
>> work on new features, how do you ensure the GeoServer 2.0 documentation
>> points to the state the wiki had for 2.0, and not the current one? (in
>> other terms, how to ensure the documentation is versioned?)
> 
> Your concern is well-justified. All the configuration documentation on 
> the seegrid wiki has to be migrated to the GeoServer user manual. There 
> is no other sensible way to manage it. Now that we have a Hudson for 
> trunk docs, there is no reason not to move it as soon as we have time. 
> In my view, this piece of work is not complete until we have done so.

Excellent :)

Cheers
Andrea

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