The only issue I see is that at least over at codehaus, they can't
seem to get Confluence to stabilize. How stable and scalable is it?
geir
On May 26, 2005, at 3:54 AM, David Blevins wrote:
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
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