I'm in favor of the distributed documentation. It should also make
maintaining the docs a little more straightforward.

Cheers,
nick

On 9/20/03 3:40 PM, "Vincent Massol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to do some brainstorming on how we want to manage the Cactus
> documentation in the future. ATM, we have a monolithic documentation/
> project which contains the full documentation for all modules.
> 
> Note: The modules are: framework, samples/servlet, samples/jetty,
> samples/ejb, integration/ant, integration/eclipse/*, etc
> 
> There is another way of doing this, by distributing the documentation to
> the respective modules: the documentation related to the framework will
> go in the framework module, etc. And the general documentation will go
> in the master project (whatever we want to call it).
> 
> Something like:
> 
> jakarta-cactus
> |_ framework
>   |_ xdocs
>     |_ [doc related to the framework module]
> |_ [other modules]
> |_ xdocs
>   |_ [general master docs]
> 
> The published website, would also mirror this:
> 
> /www/jakarta.apache.org/cactus/[version]
> |_ [general master docs]
> |_ framework
>   |_ [doc related to the framework module]
> 
> In my opinion, the advantages are:
> 
> - each module is self-contained and standalone (in term of artifacts it
> generates, build, and in term of documentation), thus leading in a more
> modular build (and more scalable)
> 
> - it will allow to easily move to a Maven build (which require this
> structure to work as is - Otherwise, we won't be able to easily benefit
> from a lot of the nice features related to documentation and reports)
> 
> - Cactus has moved from a single project to modules which are now
> clearly identified. Moving the documentation is the last step in this
> direction.
> 
> Any disadvantage?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks
> -Vincent
> 
> 
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