Hello all!
CollabNet is planning an upgrade of the Tigris site to the new version of
their product CollabNet. This upgrade is currently planned for the 23rd of
July. They have just set up a stageing site on data from a couple of weeks
back to test the migration scripts and to allow us to prepare for the
changes.
The most important changes from my point of view is the addition of a wiki
as part of the web site. (It is a MoinMoin wiki for all you wiki geeks).
My plan for the use of the wiki is as follows:
- The Cookbook will be moved into the wiki per section. The names of the
wiki pages will initially be the names of the Cookbook sections. Once the
whole Cookbook is moved (and preferably not before to not cause too much
confusion) we can start restructuring within the wiki concept, including
changing names of wiki pages.
- We don't bother to keep the structure of the Cookbook and we work to
remove the name "Cookbook" from the wiki pages. All contents will be within
the wiki and the structure of the Cookbook is abandoned and replaced by any
number of purposeful structures. Initially I plan to use the Cookbook index
as structure but that is mostly to make sure everything is imported.
Especially, we don't use subpages for this kind of structure.
- We put the ArgoUML Users' web site into use! I.e. for every piece of
information moved we could either move it into the ArgoUML Users' wiki (at
www.argouml-users.net) or into the ArgoUML Developers' wiki at
argouml.tigris.org.
- Most of the other parts of the argouml web site where we maintain
static web pages is moved.
- Developer Zone (About, Vision, Commited Members, Proposals, ...)
- Documentation i.e. the Tools link Documentation. Here a lot of work
is to decide what goes into the ArgoUML Users' wiki and what
goes into the
ArgoUML Developers' wiki. When in doubt, put it in any or both
of the wikis
and make a link between the pages.
- We use a single wiki for development-related issues for argouml
projects and the language used is English. Each subproject can create any
number of wiki pages to describe the specifics of that part of the code but
we don't make any distinction if they belong to another subproject, it
should be apparent from the name of the page.
- If someone wants to create wiki pages in other languages (German,
Spanish, ...), it is probably user web pages intially, then I suggest the
wikis from the appropriate language project (argouml-de, argouml-es, ...)
are used for this.
- The wiki mechanism creates links to wiki pages for the tigris user
names. We use these for bios or CV on the developers (if you want).
The Cookbook, and the Developer Zone, will no longer exist as artifacts,
instead they are joined into the wiki with occasional pages kept in the
subversion repository (like the main page).
We eventually need to decide on how to handle the Tour. It could either
still be kept as static web pages, it could be done as a wiki Slide Show in
the ArgoUML Developers' wiki, or it could be moved to the ArgoUML Users'
wiki / web site.
Besides the wiki, the biggest change is the Mailing Lists that are now
integrated with the Discussion Forums (not used in the ArgoUML project). I
think this will allow each of you to decide if you want to take part in the
email discussions by email or using the discussion forums on the web site. I
don't think this will affect how we work in the project that much though it
might affect how you choose to work with the project.
If you want to take part in the testing at the stage site, let me know in a
personal mail.
/Linus
