On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Mike Pumphrey<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't see much of a problem with hosting pending docs.
>
> Okay.  You mean as a separate project or as part of the User/Developer 
> Manuals?  (Hoping for the former...)

As long as I can:

- commit to a repo the work that I am doing
- let users(clients) review it online

I am happy with what best fits your needs and/or desires.

Ciao,
Simone.

>
> Thanks,
> Mike Pumphrey
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>
>
> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> won't be built and hosted live,
>>>
>>> -1 I need me as well as others to se what I am doing. Pending, while
>>> still pending, should be visibile. I hoping to see feedback from users
>>> (and clients) more than from other members of the committer list. Or
>>> are we writing docs for ourselves?
>>>
>>>> they won't be linked to, and people are way less likely to get
>>>> confused by looking at them.
>>
>> I don't see much of a problem with hosting pending docs. Simply by being
>> marked as pending it gets the message to users the the docs are
>> incomplete. It also serves as a motivation to the doc writers to put the
>> work into getting the docs up to quality, the equivalent of having
>> community module maintainers put in the work to get a module supported.
>>>>
>>>> A la:
>>>>
>>>> User Manual (user/)
>>>> Developer Manual (developer/)
>>>> Documentation Guide (docguide/)
>>>> Pending Documentation (pending/)
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1, with the observation above.
>>>
>>> Ciao,
>>> Simone.
>>>
>>>> Please let me know if I'm confused about what's being discussed here.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mike Pumphrey
>>>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>>>> Simone Giannecchini wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Justin
>>>>>> Deoliveira<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>> I don't think that this way of producing docs would work at least
>>>>>>>> not for us.
>>>>>>>> 1> Working with the wiki is a real pain
>>>>>>>> 2> We often use more than on computer for our work, hence we need to
>>>>>>>> make use of svn
>>>>>>>> 3> Documentation time is expensive, we cannot afford writing on the
>>>>>>>> wiki and maintaining patches. I don't wish to put our private svn in
>>>>>>>> the loop.
>>>>>>> Excellent points.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Therefore, simple suggestion, we should think about a scheme
>>>>>>>> where the
>>>>>>>> docs get committed to svn right away and then moved into
>>>>>>>> "production-ready" documentation once a formal review has been
>>>>>>>> made (I
>>>>>>>> would add between N days).
>>>>>>>> This would make everyone happy I guess.
>>>>>>> Well branching would be the obvious answer with our current system.
>>>>>>> Although doing a full branch for working on docs is a bit of
>>>>>>> overkill.
>>>>>> I agree, overkill...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Another alternative could be to have a "pending" space. This could be
>>>>>>> more of a "scratch pad" type place where wiki type style writing can
>>>>>>> take place, at the same time having the docs integrated. Although
>>>>>>> pending docs would not be considered part of the finished product and
>>>>>>> stripped out of the doc artifacts when they are built.
>>>>>> This is exactly what I have in mind. Write the doc then ask for review
>>>>>> when you are ready.
>>>>> Cool. So I think the simplest way to do this would be have a pending
>>>>> directory under the top level directory. Underneath this directory we
>>>>> put pending docs. The structure could mirror the intended structure
>>>>> under the actual doc root. Examples for the recent mosaic tutorial:
>>>>>
>>>>> user/source/*pending*/tutorials/image_mosaic_plugin
>>>>> user/source/*pending*/styling/raster_symbolizer/
>>>>>
>>>>> However this only works for new content. Patches to the existing docs
>>>>> obviously can't fall into this scheme. However those changes seem to be
>>>>> more targeted and have less content. So what about just sticking with
>>>>> the jira issue/patch/review approach given that we formalize the review
>>>>> process?
>>>>>
>>>>>>> A third answer is dsvc.
>>>>>> This is more a proposal than an answer :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would say that 1 would work for the moment, 3 could be next step.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ciao
>>>>>> Simone.
>>>>>>>> Ciao,
>>>>>>>> Simone.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 2c,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -Justin
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Mike Pumphrey wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I don't think the idea was abandoned, but I also don't think it
>>>>>>>>>> was adopted as dogma.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is there a section I should take a look at and/or go in with my
>>>>>>>>>> vacuum cleaner?  :)  Just let me know...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Mike Pumphrey
>>>>>>>>>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Apologies if I missed something while I was away but I thought
>>>>>>>>>>> before we
>>>>>>>>>>> more or less agreed that we would adopt Mike as the user guide
>>>>>>>>>>> doc
>>>>>>>>>>> maintainer and that non-trivial changes should go through him
>>>>>>>>>>> via patches?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Did we abandon that as a bad idea?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> -Justin
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