On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>You can (well, soon if I get things done!) commit static files to the
>>'documentation' area of the project (now Incubator, each Top Level
>>Project has one) and then the WWW server/system will pull that from
>>the SVN into a RSYNC area on people.apache.org, and MIRRORS (not sure
>>if any mirrors are actually put in place, but that has been the idea
>>in case it is needed) will pick it up from there and make it available
>>to the rest of the world. So, people will not hit the ASF SVN
>>directly.
>
> For releases, this makes sense, but I think we'll still run into the problem 
> with the documentation JARs.
>
> Using Confluence seems preferable for a couple reasons - we wanted to move to 
> a CMS anyways, and, assuming we can host applets in our Wiki pages, it will 
> allow us to work around the SVN issue. Is it possible to upload JAR files to 
> the Wiki (in a similar manner to uploading images, perhaps)? Apologies if 
> there is an obvious answer to this - I don't have a lot of experience with 
> Wikis.

Uploads work just fine. So, Confluence can do your stuff. For instance
take a look at Apache Felix. Their site is managed from Confluence,
then exported to static html every now and then.

Cheers
Niclas
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