[jira] Commented: (JDO-537) Upgrade Apache JDO site to encompass user-level documentation/guides etc

["Michelle Caisse (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Michelle Caisse commented on JDO-537:
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About deployment - db.apache.org uses maven and their process is to do "maven site:deploy" which deploys the site to the staging server. However, it only works if you have uploaded an ssh key to the server, which IMO is an annoyance. I prefer the current process, which has more manual steps, but works. Presumably we could create a maven goal to copy to docs, then carry on as usual.

> Upgrade Apache JDO site to encompass user-level documentation/guides etc
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>
>                 Key: JDO-537
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-537
>             Project: JDO
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: site and infrastructure
>            Reporter: Andy Jefferson
>            Assignee: Andy Jefferson
>             Fix For: JDO 2 maintenance release 1
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>         Attachments: xdocs.zip
>
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> The Apache JDO site is good as far as it goes, but is typically at a developer level. The vast majority of users don't read the JDO specification, and certainly not in any detail. It would benefit from a revamp to take on user-level docs describing basic JDO terminology such as PersistenceManager, PersistenceManagerFactory, JDOQL, Extents etc etc. In addition some simple worked examples would aid uptake. The JPOX site already has a selection of such docs at
> http://www.jpox.org/docs/jdo/jdo_overview.html
> and they could be moved across.
> The current site is generated using Anakia, but would likely be more extensible and cleaner using Maven1 site/xdoc plugins. As a demonstration of this, there is an initial Maven1 version of the Apache JDO site at
> http://www.jpox.org/apachejdo/index.html
> This demo has had very little configuration, and is located there temporarily to allow feedback, and will be removed in the future. Maven1 site/xdoc allows "navigation.xml" (to define the side navigation), "site.jsl" (to define the velocity process of putting together top, side, body and bottom areas on each page), and 3 CSS files to control styling, fonts and such. The side menu can benefit from submenus with expand/collapse to aid display of large amounts of content.
> I'd anticipate adding the following side menu groups, but others may have better ideas
> * Documentation - with pages for different JDO concepts PM, PMF, JDOQL, Extent, etc
> * Tutorials - very simple worked examples, things like 1-1, or replication, or how to have an M-N with attributes

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