Ron: I agree with you, ad I think it's great time to start fixing the docs for 2.2. Depending on my availability, I will be will to help. If you know or if you have compiled a list of what topics/order I need to follow to improve the docs, this will help me a lot.
On Mon May 04,2009 09:33 am, Ron Wheeler wrote: > This has been a chronic problem and there is an interest in the user > community to work with David and the Hippo team to try to fix this. > > There is a lot of documentation but it is really written for the developers > and requires way too much reading between the lines. > > I have tried in the past to describe a set of documentation that my guys > could have used to get started. > Is there anyone else who would like to work on documentation? With version > 2.2 about to be released, it is not a bad time to take a run at the > documentation. > > Ron > > imoleswo...@gmail.com wrote: >> Totally frustrated! >> >> Using Jetspeed2 ( Or at least trying to ) the documentation is extremely >> poor for the uninitiated and there seems to be a dearth of any hardcopy >> support. >> Just getting installed and running on Ubuntu was enough to grey the little >> hair I have left! Now that we have overcome that obstacle I cannot connect >> to my Mysql database because the app is not aware of my mysql connector >> file and there is no documentation to tell me how to tell the app to use >> a certain connector. >> >> Sure there is a little insert on updating the build.properties file but I >> am not even close to the stage of doing builds, just trying to use the >> demo apps to get the blasted thing going. >> >> Its not surprising that big business runs a mile when faced with open >> source stuff. The learning curve is simply made too expensive by poor low >> level documentation. No description of the tree structure, poor >> prerequisites requirements, interdependencies and too much to mention. >> >> -- >> This message was sent on behalf of imoleswo...@gmail.com at >> openSubscriber.com >> http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/jetspeed-user@portals.apache.org/topic.html >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: jetspeed-user-unsubscr...@portals.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: jetspeed-user-h...@portals.apache.org >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: jetspeed-user-unsubscr...@portals.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: jetspeed-user-h...@portals.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: jetspeed-user-unsubscr...@portals.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: jetspeed-user-h...@portals.apache.org
