[jira] [Created] (FLUME-1987) Improving Documentation for Apache Flume

["Israel Ekpo (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Israel Ekpo created FLUME-1987:
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             Summary: Improving Documentation for Apache Flume
                 Key: FLUME-1987
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1987
             Project: Flume
          Issue Type: Brainstorming
          Components: Docs, Web
    Affects Versions: v1.3.1, v1.2.0, v1.0.0, v1.4.0
            Reporter: Israel Ekpo
            Assignee: Israel Ekpo


Hello Everyone,

I have been giving this a great deal of thought over the last 3 weeks.

I would really appreciate feedback on how we should proceed on this from users, developers (committers), and project management perspectives.

It would really be nice for the documentation for the project to be moved from git into the wiki and organized in a manner that makes it easy to locate information on features, components, processes etc.

This will allow us to:

1. Break things down into easily digestible chunks of information rather than having it in only long page.

2. Be able to update and publish information for previous and future releases immediately.


Some of the wiki pages are buried deep down and may not be reachable from the wiki home page.

It's also a bit confusing to find information from the two versions of the wiki home page

https://cwiki.apache.org/FLUME/home.html

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLUME/Home

I like how projects like Apache Solr (http://wiki.apache.org/solr) and PHP.net (http://www.php.net/manual/en) organize information.

I think we can learn a few things from how their project's documentation is structured.

We could add comments to specific features, if they behave or should be configured differently in different versions/releases.

What I would like to start with is:

1. Re-organization of the wiki home page to have a navigable table of contents carefully broken down into easy-to-digest sections.
2. Sections that document the overall architecture of the product. 
3. Sections that document the various features of the product (Sources, Channels, Sinks, Interceptors, DeSerializers etc).
4. Sections that document tips, techniques and processes for contributors, developers troubleshooting issues, active committers and PMC members.
5. FAQ index compiling and providing solutions to commonly-asked questions from the user and developer mailing lists.
6. Re-introduction of Flume explaining what it is and what it isn't. Also explaining use cases where Flume is applicable.

Making this information readily available for new comers will really improve the rate of adoption and strengthen the community in the immediate future.

Please add your responses and comments to this JIRA issue so that we can track it.

Thanks.

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