Would it be possible to link to the in-progress 2.1 documentation
from what I think is the main docs page http://geronimo.apache.org/
documentation.html?
I'm also wondering whether there is some way to make the existence of
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/documentation.html
more obvious from
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/
which seems to be what I always find when I look for the 2.1 docs.
Are there plans to copy the parts of the 1.x and 2.0.x docs that are
still relevant to the 2.1 docs? I think this did not happen
completely for the 1.1 >> 2.0 release.
thanks
david jencks
On Jan 25, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Hernan Cunico wrote:
Guys, I've been trying to get your attention around Geronimo 2.1
documentation since October last year.
Apache Geronimo is as good as you can communicate it to the users.
How do you expect the users to know all the beeps and whistles? Not
a best way to tell the users HOW TO do things in Geronimo than by
having a good documentation.
How much of your time it would actually take to write up a page
describing a component or module and how to use it? It's you
writing the code, why not you writing about that code and how to
use it!?
There are tons of questions on the user@ and dev@ lists about how
to perform basic (and some times not so basic) tasks and
configurations, we get these all the time. This is a clear sign
that we need to improve the way we document the things.
For 2.1 the situation is even worse, we pretty much don't have any
documentation and we can't continue developing documentation the
way we've been doing in the past. The way it looks now, Geronimo
2.1 won't have supporting documentation.
Let's discuss here what areas need to be covered and who can work
on documenting them. It is your turn now.
Cheers!
Hernan
Kevan Miller wrote:
On Jan 10, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Hernan Cunico wrote:
Hi All,
some time ago I started to put together some topics for Geronimo
v2.1 documentation.
I tried to focus on the biggest new things we are offering now,
topics we didn't have before and now we need to start from scratch.
The Geronimo v2.1 documentation space is already available here
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/documentation.html
The initial TOC includes:
* Configuration changes
* Deployment
** Deployment plan creator
* Geronimo Administration Console enhancements
* GShell
* Monitoring
* Pluggable console
* Plugin infrastructure enhancements
* RELEASE-NOTES-2.1.TXT
* Sample applications
* Security
* Tooling
* What's new?
Each of these pages already contain a few lines with some initial
thoughts. Need your input for adding topics to this list as well
as developing them.
There might be things we already had in 2.0x but we didn't cover
it in the doc, pls need your comments on that as well.
I think I'm finish covering *Deployment plan creator*, will do a
refresh later on as new code gets in.
I also created this "place holder" http://cwiki.apache.org/
GMOxPMGT/geronimo-v21-list-of-functions-status.html under *Apache
Geronimo Project Management* on the wiki so we can keep track
there the features we have ready for prime time and those that
are not so ready ;-) I could definitively use that info to build
up a new set of docs, would also help users to see where we are at.
Hernan,
Thanks for this. Time to start pulling these docs together to
prepare for release. It can't all be generated by Hernan. We'll
need to chip in...
--kevan
