On 26/01/2012 00:18, André Warnier wrote: > Please see this this as a "constructive critic", not as a complaint.
Ack. > The on-line documentation of Tomcat is not always easy-to-use, > particularly when one is a relatively naive (or new) Tomcat user, and > does not necessarily know what precise term to look for, or what belongs > where. Agreed. > The main site www.apache.org does have a search box, but it uses Google > (Eeek, a commercial outfit !) So what? While the ASF has a preference for eating its own dog food where possible, it also has zero problems with using (and paying for where appropriate) commercial services even where an alternative open source service exists if the commercial service is a better fit for the problem at hand. >, and its results are not always what one > would expect, Tomcat-wise. See https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52235 > In the above, I may have missed some better links, but at least I think > that they are not evident. Patches welcome although some restructuring looks to be necessary as the list how-to links has become quite long now. > Does anyone feel like talking to the Apache Lucene people about some > possible collaboration with the Apache Tomcat site ? I think there are simpler fixes that can be applied first although fundamentally what is required is a complete restructuring. I liked what pid did with the Tomcat 7 start-up page. I'd love to see the whole website and docs look something like that. Some other references while I am here: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16579 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48672 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49122 Some requirements to keep in mind for the documentation pages: - The source needs to be in svn - The form that the edits are made in needs to be simple to work with - We need to be able to generate the HTML as part of the build process - The website and the docs should have the same look and feel (I'd be happy if the old docs didn't) Improving this comes down to someone having the time and the skills to improve things. As always, volunteers welcome. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
