Re: zones update + suggestion [long]

[Hernan Cunico <hc...@gmail.com>]

As I said, I am willing to help in any way I can. Getting confluence up 
and running is fairly simple. IIRC, Aaron offered some time ago a 
MoinMoin to confluence migration tool, so migrating the current content 
should not be a show stopper.

IMHO, the current wiki still should have major surgery, independently of 
whether it will be migrated or not. There is a lot of 
unnecessary/redundant information there.

There has been endless discussions on whether a wiki is the right "tool" 
or not for documentation. Well, for the Geronimo project we could even 
maintain both, the current wiki and confluence (to ease the transition). 
Limiting confluence to just documentation (like JBoss wiki), host it 
within the ASF and make it official (see the Geronimo documentation 
page, "...There is not yet a full manual or similar official 
documentation..."

By "make it official" I mean to work all the necessary aspects to make 
it official (technical accuracy, up-to-date, complete, etc). I'm already 
working on this ;)

I keep thinking that for many users Geronimo will be as good as its 
documentation. V1 is around the bend, if we don't tell the users how 
"good" and simple Geronimo is, they'll use some other product that is 
documented.

In the mean time, could anybody make a reference to the confluence site 
(http://opensource2.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1692) 
from the official Geronimo documentation page 
(http://geronimo.apache.org/documentation.html)

Sorry for the size of the note.

Cheers!
Hernan

Jason Dillon wrote:
> It would be nice to see ASF Infra switch over wiki.apache.org to  
> Confluence 2.x, but I suppose they won't bee too keen to switching  wiki 
> systems again so soon, after switching to MoinMoin :-|
> 
> --jason
> 
> 
> On Dec 2, 2005, at 6:26 AM, Hernan Cunico wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> it has been a while since this note about the solaris zones but I  
>> have not seen any more comments about setting up a confluence site  on 
>> any of these zones.
>>
>> It would be great if the growing V1 documentation in the confluence  
>> site (hosted by atlassian) could be moved and hosted locally by the  ASF.
>>
>> I configured on my laptop a confluence site and have a copy of the  
>> current documentation up and running in minutes.
>>
>> How do you guys see installing a local confluence site in these  
>> zones? I am not a committer but would certainly like to help build  
>> this up.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Hernan
>>
>> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>>
>>> Our zones are done and I'm creating user accounts for those that   
>>> volunteered to help admin, namely jeff, bruce and david.  I've  run  
>>> into a small problem (solaris doesn't seem to like group  names 
>>> bigger  than 8 characters!) so I'll get that sorted and we  can move 
>>> forward...
>>> geir
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