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Jakob Homan commented on HADOOP-7069:
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It'd be great if we can get forrest working with Java 6, sure thing. But given
the lack of activity in the Forrest project over the past nearly four years,
it's probably prudent to move sooner than later. I played with textile a bit
the other night and actually quite liked it. It's worth comparing it (and
others) against maven's site generation. I would tend toward textile (or
something like it) rather than whatever Maven happens to provide, on the
assumption that a stand-alone tool would provide more features and flexibility.
The mavenization effort is a huge amount of work that would be great to get
done, but it's probably too big (x3 - thanks project split!) to be done without
a pressing need from one of the commercial interests contributing to Hadoop.
It would be great to know if that's being planned. I'm not aware that it is.
> Replace forrest with supported framework
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> Key: HADOOP-7069
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7069
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: Jakob Homan
> Fix For: 0.23.0
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> It's time to burn down the forrest. Apache forrest, which is used to
> generate the documentation for all three subprojects, has not had a release
> in several years (0.8, the version we use was released April 18, 2007), and
> requires JDK5, which was EOL'ed in November 2009. Since it doesn't seem
> likely Forrest will be developed any more, and JDK5 is not shipped with
> recent OSX versions, or included by default in most linux distros, we should
> look to find a new documentation system and convert the current docs to it.
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