Well, I think a part of the problem is that Confluenza expects too much from Confluence. I think there is something that can be done about it, but As I say, we aren't there yet. Certainly not going to switch over the OpenEJB site just yet.
-David On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:13:18AM -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > > -- > Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
