Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2010-01-06 Thread Tim Donohue
Mark and all, On 1/5/2010 5:30 PM, Mark Diggory wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Tim Donohuetdono...@duraspace.org wrote: As a bit of background on all this Confluence talk to the Developers out there. DuraSpace is currently investigating migrating the DSpace Wiki from MediaWiki over

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2010-01-05 Thread Tim Donohue
All, I feel like we're jumping the gun here. I wouldn't recommend rushing to move to Confluence-based documentation/manual for 1.6 release, as we are already so late in the game (and I'd hate to delay anything further). Plus, Jeff has got a good process going for DocBook right now, and I

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Diggory
Stuart, On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Stuart Lewis s.le...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: Hi all, A few points come to mind:  - What is the benefit of working this new way? 1.) You don't need commit rights or knowledge of SVN to work on the manual. 2.) The feedback on what your editing is visual

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2010-01-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
I am not so sure that technology is the highest barrier to wider participation in documenting software. The one seemingly insurmountable hurdle, shared by all software projects, is that only the developers know what the software will do until they write their knowledge down. Someone who is not

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Diggory
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Tim Donohue tdono...@duraspace.org wrote: All, I feel like we're jumping the gun here.  I wouldn't recommend rushing to move to Confluence-based documentation/manual for 1.6 release, as we are already so late in the game (and I'd hate to delay anything

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Diggory
MarkW, Thank you for your point of view. While I agree that it is a process of sharing between developers and users that allows us to understand the software and get properly informed to its behavior and usage. I highly disagree that esoteric technical document formats like docBook that never

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2010-01-03 Thread Mark Diggory
I've also started adding a overview page that will be capable of supporting downloads of pdf versions as well as details about the latest releases and recent changes to the documentation. Likewise, I've added the xslt/maven scripting that generates this to the svn repository.

[Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Diggory
Dear DSpace Developers (and more specifically Mr. Trimble), I've completed an experimental conversion of the DSpace Manual to Confluence located here. http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/DSTEST/DSpace+System+Documentation If you create an account we can manage access to edit it

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Trimble
I'm looking at it, but I can't figure out where to create an account. There are no easily identifiable links on this. --Jeff Jeffrey Trimble System LIbrarian William F. Maag Library Youngstown State University 330.941.2483 (Office) jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu http://www.maag.ysu.edu

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2009-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Trimble
Never mind.. found it. Jeffrey Trimble System LIbrarian William F. Maag Library Youngstown State University 330.941.2483 (Office) jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu http://www.maag.ysu.edu http://digital.maag.ysu.edu I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me...

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Manual In Confluence

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Diggory
I've added you as a editor. Cheers, Mark On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jeffrey Trimble jtrim...@cc.ysu.eduwrote: Never mind.. found it. Jeffrey Trimble System LIbrarian William F. Maag Library Youngstown State University 330.941.2483 (Office) jtrim...@cc.ysu.edu