I somehow missed your reply--anyone know how to get mutt to stop marking things as "Old"?
Anyway, answers below.... On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:04:55PM +1000, Gianny Damour wrote: > I love it! > > And I especially love the "Activity" section; this is one of the thing > that will help to provide a high-level overview of the activities. I like that it shows a heartbeat. It's also kind of cool that it shows who opened the item and who closed it. Seems like getting your name on the front page for a bit is good motivation to get involved. Ditto for the "Recently Updated" section. > > I do have a couple of questions about the features of Confluence or > Confluenza: We don't really need Confluenza. Sans the caching, it just grabs html from Confluence and munges it to fix links and junk like that. > * Can we export the overall website to an html tarball or even better a PDF? Confluence does PDF. So we could squirt one of those into every release, for example. Not sure about HTML, but I'm guessing, yes. > * Can we add support for search capabilities? Sure, Confluence has that already. We'd just need a text box in the template. > * When the documentation will start to grow, do you think that we will > be able to "easily" refactor the content? For instance, with Microsoft > Word (sorry for this poor example), there is an outline mode to > (re-)structure a doc. You can move and rename stuff very easily. Not sure how involved it would be to change the same fiddly-bit on every page, for example. I guess if you had something major to do, you could export, change, and import. > * Can we have an automatic hierarchical overview of the website content? > I mean, is the left navigation bar automatically generated from the > content of the website or do we need to maintain it? Here, I am looking > for something a la document map of Microsoft Word (sorry...) We would maintain that. Confluence does show a hierarchical view of the content in the wiki, but I'd think we'd want something sorted to our preference as a navigation bar. > I had a look to the Confluence Web site and it seems that Confluence > addresses all of these questions. However, I do not know the level of > simplification that the platform delivers. I assume that was the long way of saying, "is it easy?" :-) Yea, I've found it pretty easy so far. I've worked with our existing wiki and never found it intuative. > If the new tool box allows for an easier maintenance of the website, > then we should use it. Based on the fact that you are recommending a > migration, then it sounds reasonable to make this move. We aren't there yet, but I don't see any obstacles. Been chatting with some of the infrastructure guys (who are very nice) and they think it's pretty cool. It's amazing how far you get with a simple "hello." > Thanks David for making an old discussion a reality. Well, people want a website that isn't dead, they want an M4, and they want us certified. Just trying to put some effort into the areas we've ignored. -David > Gianny > > On 21/05/2005 11:10 AM, David Blevins wrote: > > >What do people think of having a website like this one? > > > > http://docs.openejb.org/Home > > > >Obviously, with a different look, but something with the same dynamic > >content. > > > >The main content comes from Confluence. > >The "Activity" section is dynamically created from Jira items. > >The "News" section is from Confluence blog posts. > >The "Recently Updated" section is a confluence macro. > >The whole thing is put together with a modified version of Confluenza. > >With mod_rewrite rules, it's still possible to have static conent. > > > >Seems to me like a good way to always have our activity show up on the > >website, but wihtout having to do anything more than we are already doing. > > > >Any thoughts? > > > >-David > > > > > >
