RE: [jira] Doc reorg

2007-03-16 Thread Rossmanith, Philipp

Some propositions:
- Everything under DocumentationArchitecture should be moved to
Developers...
- In Developers, a division into information related to administration
(e.g. becoming a committer, ...) and coding (e.g. architecture) would be
appreciated
- Supplying the glossary with names of standards and links to their
implementations (e.g. WS-Notification)
- DevelopersTools and Tooling and Utilities is misleading
- One could divide the User documentation into parts which are related
to/required by the JBI standard (such as explanation of JBI, Ant tasks)
- servicemix-common might better be placed at a different location
- Tutorials and Guides should be joined
- User's guideServiceMix Components seems to be redundant with
Documentation...JBI Components
- Lightweight components could be placed under servicemix-lwcontainer to
emphasize their connection

Ciao,
Philipp

 -Mensaje original-
 De: Guillaume Nodet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Enviado el: jueves, 15 de marzo de 2007 11:44
 Para: servicemix-dev@geronimo.apache.org
 Asunto: Re: [jira] Doc reorg

 Looks quite nice, congrats :-)
 I'm not very keen on changing the underlying engine,
 but the folding menu on the left seems quite usable.

 As Philip noted, it would be a nice and easy enhancement ...
 Is anyone willing to take a look at writing css /javascript
 to have a nice folding menu for ServiceMix ?

 On 3/15/07, kermitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  I would suggest to hav a look at what have done ivy , really great
  http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/write-doc.html
 
 
 
  gnodet wrote:
  
   I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
   find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
   another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page
is
   to go to the site map and browse ...
  
   Any ideas on how to do that ?
  
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   Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
  
  
 
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Re: [jira] Doc reorg

2007-03-16 Thread Guillaume Nodet

Cool, thx :-)
I will try to take a close look.  Feel free to start if you want to do so.

Btw, I've seen you have added a new page, which is really great,
so I have added you as a contributor in the Team page.
Also, if you intend to work more on servicemix, you should
send a CLA (this should be mandatory to edit the wiki afaik).

On 3/16/07, Rossmanith, Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Some propositions:
- Everything under DocumentationArchitecture should be moved to
Developers...
- In Developers, a division into information related to administration
(e.g. becoming a committer, ...) and coding (e.g. architecture) would be
appreciated
- Supplying the glossary with names of standards and links to their
implementations (e.g. WS-Notification)
- DevelopersTools and Tooling and Utilities is misleading
- One could divide the User documentation into parts which are related
to/required by the JBI standard (such as explanation of JBI, Ant tasks)
- servicemix-common might better be placed at a different location
- Tutorials and Guides should be joined
- User's guideServiceMix Components seems to be redundant with
Documentation...JBI Components
- Lightweight components could be placed under servicemix-lwcontainer to
emphasize their connection

Ciao,
Philipp

 -Mensaje original-
 De: Guillaume Nodet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Enviado el: jueves, 15 de marzo de 2007 11:44
 Para: servicemix-dev@geronimo.apache.org
 Asunto: Re: [jira] Doc reorg

 Looks quite nice, congrats :-)
 I'm not very keen on changing the underlying engine,
 but the folding menu on the left seems quite usable.

 As Philip noted, it would be a nice and easy enhancement ...
 Is anyone willing to take a look at writing css /javascript
 to have a nice folding menu for ServiceMix ?

 On 3/15/07, kermitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  I would suggest to hav a look at what have done ivy , really great
  http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/write-doc.html
 
 
 
  gnodet wrote:
  
   I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
   find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
   another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page
is
   to go to the site map and browse ...
  
   Any ideas on how to do that ?
  
   --
   Cheers,
   Guillaume Nodet
   
   Architect, LogicBlaze (http://www.logicblaze.com/)
   Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
  
  
 
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Re: [jira] Doc reorg

2007-03-15 Thread Guillaume Nodet

Looks quite nice, congrats :-)
I'm not very keen on changing the underlying engine,
but the folding menu on the left seems quite usable.

As Philip noted, it would be a nice and easy enhancement ...
Is anyone willing to take a look at writing css /javascript
to have a nice folding menu for ServiceMix ?

On 3/15/07, kermitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



I would suggest to hav a look at what have done ivy , really great
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/write-doc.html



gnodet wrote:

 I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
 find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
 another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page is
 to go to the site map and browse ...

 Any ideas on how to do that ?

 --
 Cheers,
 Guillaume Nodet
 
 Architect, LogicBlaze (http://www.logicblaze.com/)
 Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/



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RE: Doc reorg

2007-03-15 Thread Rossmanith, Philipp

Hi,

I always liked the documentation of Apache Cocoon, where you have a
separation into documentation for developers (people that want to hack
code improving the framework) and users (people who want to use the
framework without actually modifying it) and some other tracks.

They solve the overload problem by having collapsible menus.

Is that something that could be done for SM?

Ciao,
Philipp Rossmanith

 -Mensaje original-
 De: James Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Enviado el: lunes, 05 de marzo de 2007 15:25
 Para: servicemix-dev@geronimo.apache.org
 Asunto: Re: Doc reorg

 On 2/21/07, Guillaume Nodet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
  find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
  another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page is
  to go to the site map and browse ...
 
  Any ideas on how to do that ?

 Its a tricky one. In some ways having a kinda SiteMap menu thingy on
 the home page/navigation bar can help folks who know-what-they-want
 navigate quickly to the right stuff. Sometimes that can be kinda
 overload where new users don't know where to start (e.g. in the past
 the ActiveMQ site has suffered, and still does I think, from
 navigation-bar-overload).

 Maybe we need to put a bit more of the SiteMap onto the Navigation
 bar? I wonder if CSS style popup menus might help reduce some of the
 clutter of the Navigation bar while adding more of the SiteMap to the
 average user?
 http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm

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Re: Doc reorg

2007-03-15 Thread Eduardo de Vera

Hi,

I work for a company that is very interested in ServiceMix as the ESB to use
in our projects. And, since we are a spanish company, we are seriously
considering translating the documentation to spanish. I would like to know
some stuff before getting my hands to work:

- Would it be possible to post those translations on our own web page? Under
which conditions? I have read the Apache Software Licence and its seems that
the only requisite is to mantain the copyright of the original author as
well as the trademarks of Apache.

- Would the ServiceMix and Apache orgs like to get the translations for
using them on their web pages?

Thanks, best regards,


2007/3/15, Rossmanith, Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:



Hi,

I always liked the documentation of Apache Cocoon, where you have a
separation into documentation for developers (people that want to hack
code improving the framework) and users (people who want to use the
framework without actually modifying it) and some other tracks.

They solve the overload problem by having collapsible menus.

Is that something that could be done for SM?

Ciao,
Philipp Rossmanith

 -Mensaje original-
 De: James Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Enviado el: lunes, 05 de marzo de 2007 15:25
 Para: servicemix-dev@geronimo.apache.org
 Asunto: Re: Doc reorg

 On 2/21/07, Guillaume Nodet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
  find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
  another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page is
  to go to the site map and browse ...
 
  Any ideas on how to do that ?

 Its a tricky one. In some ways having a kinda SiteMap menu thingy on
 the home page/navigation bar can help folks who know-what-they-want
 navigate quickly to the right stuff. Sometimes that can be kinda
 overload where new users don't know where to start (e.g. in the past
 the ActiveMQ site has suffered, and still does I think, from
 navigation-bar-overload).

 Maybe we need to put a bit more of the SiteMap onto the Navigation
 bar? I wonder if CSS style popup menus might help reduce some of the
 clutter of the Navigation bar while adding more of the SiteMap to the
 average user?
 http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm

 --

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Re: Doc reorg

2007-03-15 Thread James Strachan

On 3/15/07, Rossmanith, Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

I always liked the documentation of Apache Cocoon, where you have a
separation into documentation for developers (people that want to hack
code improving the framework) and users (people who want to use the
framework without actually modifying it) and some other tracks.

They solve the overload problem by having collapsible menus.

Is that something that could be done for SM?


Its a good idea - we could maybe have different navigation bars for
users v developers etc.


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Re: Doc reorg

2007-03-15 Thread James Strachan

On 3/15/07, Eduardo de Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I work for a company that is very interested in ServiceMix as the ESB to use
in our projects. And, since we are a spanish company, we are seriously
considering translating the documentation to spanish.


Great! :)


I would like to know
some stuff before getting my hands to work:

- Would it be possible to post those translations on our own web page? Under
which conditions? I have read the Apache Software Licence and its seems that
the only requisite is to mantain the copyright of the original author as
well as the trademarks of Apache.


You can translate and reuse any documentation as its licensed under
the Apache license.



- Would the ServiceMix and Apache orgs like to get the translations for
using them on their web pages?


My preference would be to host the spanish translation on an Apache
wiki; then other folks can help contribute to keeping the spanish
documentation up to date. e.g. we could have an entire
ServiceMix-Spanish wiki for all spanish documentation and link to it
from the home page; then the entire site/nav bar could be spanish?

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Re: [jira] Doc reorg

2007-03-15 Thread kermitt

I would suggest to hav a look at what have done ivy , really great
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/write-doc.html



gnodet wrote:
 
 I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
 find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
 another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page is
 to go to the site map and browse ...
 
 Any ideas on how to do that ?
 
 -- 
 Cheers,
 Guillaume Nodet
 
 Architect, LogicBlaze (http://www.logicblaze.com/)
 Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
 
 

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Re: Doc reorg

2007-03-05 Thread James Strachan

On 2/21/07, Guillaume Nodet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page is
to go to the site map and browse ...

Any ideas on how to do that ?


Its a tricky one. In some ways having a kinda SiteMap menu thingy on
the home page/navigation bar can help folks who know-what-they-want
navigate quickly to the right stuff. Sometimes that can be kinda
overload where new users don't know where to start (e.g. in the past
the ActiveMQ site has suffered, and still does I think, from
navigation-bar-overload).

Maybe we need to put a bit more of the SiteMap onto the Navigation
bar? I wonder if CSS style popup menus might help reduce some of the
clutter of the Navigation bar while adding more of the SiteMap to the
average user?
http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm

--

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Re: [jira] Doc reorg

2007-03-04 Thread Guillaume Nodet

Any help is welcome.
Yeah, you need to login in confluence, and you also need to
sign and fax a CLA to the ASF for IP reasons.  If you have any
problem, tell us.

On 2/22/07, dgoodine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Having just gone through the initial (steep and sometimes pitfall-scattered)
learning curve, I could definitely help sketch out some ideas and possible
contribute to the documentation.   Do I need to get a confluence account set
up?  (I'm not sure how much time I can commit, but I'd like to contribute
what I can to help others with their initial forray into SM.)



Terry wrote:

 Any ideas on how to do that ?

 You need more than one way to get to information as people will use
 different strategies to find out about a new technology. I personally
 like to know at a glance the scope of a project, so I preferred the
 original approach (and the one taken on the ActiveMQ site) of having
 lots of left menu items for each topic, component or significant point.

 The documentation is probably weakest on practical examples, judging by
 the sort of support queries coming in. There should be explicit
 tutorials for binding to a foreign web service, exposing a web service,
 wrapping a POJO, creating JBI components, packaging and deploying using
 su/sa, applying security.

 We also need to do a better job of keeping these up to date and making
 it clear which documentation refers to which release.


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Re: Doc reorg

2007-03-04 Thread Guillaume Nodet

On 2/22/07, Terry Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Any ideas on how to do that ?

You need more than one way to get to information as people will use
different strategies to find out about a new technology. I personally
like to know at a glance the scope of a project, so I preferred the
original approach (and the one taken on the ActiveMQ site) of having
lots of left menu items for each topic, component or significant point.


Yeah, we need to add some back.
Do you have any suggestions ?



The documentation is probably weakest on practical examples, judging by
the sort of support queries coming in. There should be explicit
tutorials for binding to a foreign web service, exposing a web service,
wrapping a POJO, creating JBI components, packaging and deploying using
su/sa, applying security.


Agreed, there are some tutorials in the way, but we need more of course.
The examples from the distribution may be used too, but not all are really
documented.



We also need to do a better job of keeping these up to date and making
it clear which documentation refers to which release.



Yeah, if you see some unclear areas, just send a mail so that we can fix them.




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Re: Doc reorg

2007-02-22 Thread Terry Cox

Any ideas on how to do that ?


You need more than one way to get to information as people will use 
different strategies to find out about a new technology. I personally 
like to know at a glance the scope of a project, so I preferred the 
original approach (and the one taken on the ActiveMQ site) of having 
lots of left menu items for each topic, component or significant point.


The documentation is probably weakest on practical examples, judging by 
the sort of support queries coming in. There should be explicit 
tutorials for binding to a foreign web service, exposing a web service, 
wrapping a POJO, creating JBI components, packaging and deploying using 
su/sa, applying security.


We also need to do a better job of keeping these up to date and making 
it clear which documentation refers to which release.



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Re: [jira] Doc reorg

2007-02-22 Thread dgoodine

Having just gone through the initial (steep and sometimes pitfall-scattered)
learning curve, I could definitely help sketch out some ideas and possible
contribute to the documentation.   Do I need to get a confluence account set
up?  (I'm not sure how much time I can commit, but I'd like to contribute
what I can to help others with their initial forray into SM.)



Terry wrote:
 
 Any ideas on how to do that ?
 
 You need more than one way to get to information as people will use 
 different strategies to find out about a new technology. I personally 
 like to know at a glance the scope of a project, so I preferred the 
 original approach (and the one taken on the ActiveMQ site) of having 
 lots of left menu items for each topic, component or significant point.
 
 The documentation is probably weakest on practical examples, judging by 
 the sort of support queries coming in. There should be explicit 
 tutorials for binding to a foreign web service, exposing a web service, 
 wrapping a POJO, creating JBI components, packaging and deploying using 
 su/sa, applying security.
 
 We also need to do a better job of keeping these up to date and making 
 it clear which documentation refers to which release.
 
 
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Re: Doc reorg

2007-02-22 Thread Bruce Snyder

On 2/21/07, Guillaume Nodet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page is
to go to the site map and browse ...

Any ideas on how to do that ?


I like the User's Guide concept, but I think we should return to
having more links to information exposed in order to help users find
the buried information in an easier manner.

I also agree with Terry about the common examples. I've already begun
working on some of these  examples, but none of them are complete yet.
I started Hello World style examples for creating a BC and a SE as
well as providing and consuming a web service. I just need to make
some time to complete them.

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Doc reorg

2007-02-21 Thread Guillaume Nodet

I think we need to reorg the docs so that one can more easily
find the informations (we also need to write more docs, but that's
another problem).  Currently, the only way to really find a page is
to go to the site map and browse ...

Any ideas on how to do that ?

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Architect, LogicBlaze (http://www.logicblaze.com/)
Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/