On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Dec 18, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Les Hazlewood wrote: > > Almost all of our end-user communication is now exclusively on the mailing >> lists. We do have a few 'trickle' posts being made to the forums on the >> existing jsecurity.org website, but those have reduced quite a bit in the >> last 6 months. >> >> So now the only time the site is really updated with any level of >> regularity >> is when we make some announcement or make a release, both of which don't >> happen very often. >> >> Because of this, I'd like to discuss (again) the possibility of the >> website >> being static that one or a few of us update via a tool like Dreamweaver, >> which does automatic content sync'ing, instead of the convoluted >> Confluence-to-HTML export mechanism that we were trying to do previously. >> I >> think it was a painful process for Allan and he just stopped trying since >> he >> didn't have a full day or two to spend on it. >> >> I really like the idea that we can totally customize anything we want with >> HTML tools (however we want) and was never happy with how the Confluence >> export mechanism worked, especially with having to deal with ASF >> permissions >> for site templates, and all that. >> >> So, if I personally spend my time working on website setup, I'd like to >> spend it going this route, pending team consensus. >> >> What do you guys think? >> > > Don't really care how as publish the website so long as all committers are > able to do so. > > I would love to keep the same high quality as the current site. I propose > a hybrid solution where the face pages are static and of high quality. Then > developer/user notes, etc. can be on the Confluence generated site. We need > a way for non-commiters to participate as well. These are my sentiments exactly - a nice static site with the ability to easily access (either pull in or link to) the wiki.
