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[WIKI-UPDATE] ForrestProposal Sun Apr 6 13:00:03 2003

Page: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=ForrestProposal , version: 46 on Sun Apr  6 10:20:20 2003 by DavidCrossley

- This is an evolving proposal to determine how to smoothly enable the Cocoon documentation to be built by [Apache Forrest|http://xml.apache.org/forrest/]. The outcome of this proposal will be a coherent Proposal email to the lists and subsequent Votes about certain apsects.
+ This is an evolving proposal to determine how to smoothly enable the Cocoon documentation to be built by [Apache Forrest|http://xml.apache.org/forrest/].
- We are experimenting with design-via-wiki and the [cocoon-docs|http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/mail-lists.html] mailing list. (If it does not work then we may try using CVS and mailing list instead.)
- Let us start by determining the dot-points in the "Outline" section below, to express requirements and issues. Later we can refine those.
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+ Let us start by determining the dot-points in the "Outline" section below, to express requirements and issues.
- * Please keep the dot-point numbers, just add new ones at the bottom. In this way we can just refer to item numbers during email discussion. After a little while we can re-arrange the list items into a sensible order.
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+ * Please keep the dot-point numbers, just add new ones at the bottom. In this way we can just refer to item numbers during email discussion.
- * If you want to make major changes then please be sure to discuss that on cocoon-docs.
+ * If you want to make major changes then please be sure to discuss that on [cocoon-docs|http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/mail-lists.html].
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+ #Lots of discussion on cocoon-docs in late-March 2003
- PROPOSAL
+ DECISION
- * Update CVS during the transition period.
+ * One person needs to update CVS when they are happy with the transition, then others can help to refine it.
- !7. Expect a team of people to help, especially during the transition of xdocs.
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+ !7. Expect a few people to help, especially during the transition of xdocs.
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- * Define an actual week when people will be available. The vote on this proposal will draw some more people to help.
+ * At some stage we are going to need to just break the docs/webapp-docs parts of cocoon-2.1 and this disruption will take a few people to put it back together.
- PROPOSAL
+ DECISION
- !9. Use a consistent version of Forrest by all team members during the transition phase.
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+ !9. Use a consistent version of Forrest during the transition phase.
- PROPOSAL
- * Use the stable HEAD at the time and continue with this until the job is done.
+ DECISION
+ * Forrest cvs head now has a cvs tag called "stable".
- PROPOSAL
- * Use the tabs that are suggested below.
+ DECISION
+ * Use the tabs that are suggested below. These are easy to re-arrange.
- PROPOSAL
+ DECISION
- !15. Do the old DTDs and OASIS Catalog entries need to remain in Cocoon CVS? Other people may be still using them for their own projects.
+ !15. Do the old documnet-v10 DTDs and OASIS Catalog entries need to remain in Cocoon CVS? Other people may be still using them for their own projects.
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- * Leave this issue until after transition is finished.
+ * Leave this issue until after transition is finished. Forrestbot already addresses part of this need.
+ PROPOSAL
+ * Open
+ * 2003-04-06 Noted some decisions and fine-tuned the text.
- * 2002-11-12 Added comments
- * 2002-11-14 Sent a call to cocoon-dev, cocoon-users, and forrest-dev to ask more people to come to cocoon-docs to discuss this proposal.
- * 2002-11-15 Added comments from recent email.
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- * 2002-11-21 Added some items from the recent conversion trial and added new wiki page [HowToForrestTransition]
- * 2002-11-26 Reformatted to make discussion easier and added some items
- * 2002-12-28 Fine-tuned the whole proposal
- * 2002-12-31 Added item 19.