Confluence is a bit "finicky" in its formatting, etc. BUT it is much better
than what we DID have. So... baby steps.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Michal Bielicki <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Since I have done a hostile takeover on all things freeswitch in sipx it
> seems, I can also take responsibility for updating all docs related to that
> part. I have a new guy starting in my office from 01/09 who will be doing
> our german freeswitch wiki and I will add to his responsibilities to create
> a whole bunch of freeswitch/sipx related docs in the new wiki.
>
> And just for the record ... I am a xwiki fan and confluence drives me
> insane ;)
>
>
> Am 05.08.2010 um 15:55 schrieb Geoff Van Brunt:
>
> The issue I see with not copying is that documentation does not get
> updated. In the old wiki there was a ton of documentation that was
> outdated. Let's face it, most developers hate documenting things... :)
> This confused new users which are the very people the project would like
> to attract.
>
> I do however agree with you about the problems with that approach. One
> comment I would like to make in general about the project; there is no
> formal process for "who is responsible for what". In other open source
> projects they often have project leads for various parts. It is
> documented on the website etc. Handy for devs as well as end users. It
> also makes it easy to see when a particular project losses traction and
> might need some people to move it along. it also assures that projects
> continue to evolve instead of stagnate. If that approach is adopted, you
> (or a committee) could appoint someone to be the "project lead" of
> documentation. It would be their job every release to keep everything up
> to date. That approach would also let some non-developers contribute
> back to the project if they wished to...
>
> Anyhow, just my 2 cents...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas
> Hubler
> Sent: August-04-10 6:54 PM
> To: sipx-users
> Subject: [sipx-users] Wiki versioning good or bad idea
>
> Anyone a fan of Confluence's feature to copy entire spaces into new
> versions?  I'm not and here's why
>
> * Simple search pulls up redundant copies of probably the same
> information
> * Editors can easily make mistakes and edit the wrong version if they
> are not careful or not aware (just happened with ldap)
>
> Proposal
> * Don't use versioning in confluence and if developers want to version
> things that are in upcoming releases to existing pages, they can add an
> in-line image denoting the version.  Kinda like the "v3.8" image you see
> in this page
>
>
> http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/Import_User_and_Device_Data_from_
> CSV_Files
>
> Benefits
> * none of the issues notes above
> * only the developers need to be aware of this
> * worst case if it's not done, it's not a big deal
> * if we want to remove all images because version is so old, just delete
> image or replace image w/blank image
>
> Another proposal
> * Screw trying to version things, it's a wiki.  Go to page history if
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