+1 Rich Scheuerle Senior Programmer, AIM SWG IBM Web Services (JAX-RPC, JAX-WS, SAAJ) Development, Customer Solutions, and Open Source Apache Axis2 ([email protected]) 512-286-8420 (IBM TL 363-8420)
Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]> wrote on 07/19/2010 12:06:25 AM: > From: Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 07/19/2010 12:07 AM > Subject: Re: [Vote] Simplifying the Axis2 release process > > +1! > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Andreas Veithen <[email protected] > > wrote: > All, > > It looks like one of the major pain points when doing an Axis2 release > is producing and deploying the Maven site. The complexity of this part > of the process stems from the fact that in the (deployed) site we not > only have the documentation for the current release, but also the > pages for previous releases. There are a couple of ant scripts to make > this work, but the stuff is difficult to understand, maintain and use. > I think that the added value of linking to the documentation of > previous releases doesn't justify this complexity, and I would like to > radically simplify this. > > Here is my proposal: > > * Change modules/documentation to make it a simple and straightforward > Maven site, without any links to or inclusion of previous releases. > * When doing a release, we archive the site of the previous release by > moving it to a subfolder. > * Once the new axis.apache.org site developed by Milinda et al is > ready, we can link to the archived Maven sites from there. > > Here is my +1. > > Andreas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; > http://www.opensource.lk/ > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > Director; Sahana Software Foundation; http://www.sahanafoundation.org/ > Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ > > Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/
