Hi Brian, I've created a new "Gardener" group on the jspwiki-site; and included user BrianB (and all administrators).
The LeftMenu and the GettingStarted pages are now editable for this group. If you'd like to update other protected pages, please let me know. BR dirk On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 7:45 AM Brian Burch <br...@pingtoo.com> wrote: > I created a new JIRA (JSPWIKI-1119) to track my intended first of > several changes to the wiki, in which I would like to address the > installation advice. > > Your previous advice (below) is still valid. jspwiki-site contains some > of the content, but not the pages of interest to me at this time. > > I wanted to work in a "top down" direction, so my first task seemed to > be trivial. I believe it should be very easy for new visitors to make > progress. It is easy to find the "Downloads" page, but not so easy to > find the "Getting Started" page. (Of course, you can search for it - but > that assumes you already know the name, or some unique content, of the > page.) > > I would like to put a link to "getting Started" on the Main page left > menu, and add it with some extra text to the Downloads page. > > I successfully logged on to the new Apache Infra LDAP-enabled JIRA > system with my apache developer credentials to create my JIRA, so that > was encouraging. > > Next, I logged on to the JSPWiki wiki itself, which confusingly is not > LDAP enabled (my own personal jspwiki is!) and so I have to use a > different set of credentials. > > I loaded the three pages of immediate interest, but the edit option is > greyed out and I see a "no entry" sign when I move my mouse over it. > > My roles are "all" and "authenticated", but my userid does not appear in > any of the groups that I can see. > > Because I don't have the source for the pages, I can't easily send you > diffs to apply for me. > > Anyone could make the high-level changes for me. However, my plan after > this initial change is for fairly major surgery on the "Getting Started" > page. > > It needs updating to reflect java8 and tomcat8, as well as some advice > about systemd for linux users. I feel the "Getting Started" page should > be trimmed down a lot, but then have it link to several separate pages > relevant to different classes of users (e.g. Quick Evaluation, Simple, > Persistent External Content, Production, Customisation). > > I would raise a separate JIRA to track my work on the "Getting Started" > changes. > > Would it make sense to authorise my JSPWiki userid (case sensitive > BrianB) for online updates to the production wiki content? After all, I > guess it uses the VersioningFileprovider and so wouldn't be too > difficult to back out my changes if someone doesn't like them. > > As you can tell from the elapsed time associated with this thread, I > struggle to find time to contribute to the project. However, I am > actively working (part-time) on my own tomcat and JSPWiki upgrades, so > it is relatively easy for me to share my experiences (both painful and > successful). > > Regards, > > Brian > > > On 6/5/19 6:31 am, Juan Pablo Santos RodrÃguez wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > > > pages served under jspwiki.apache.org are built using the jbake branch > at > > https://github.com/apache/jspwiki-site/ That's an static site, which > serves > > mainly > > for two things: > > 1.- serve javadocs > > 2.- as a backup site of jspwiki-wiki.apache.org > > > > jspwiki-wiki.apache.org is a JSPWiki application that we use as > > documentation of JSPWiki, and as such their pages are stored (and backed > > up, but that's > > another story) on VM provided by ASF Infra. IIRC, you can set up your > > account there and edit where appropiate. There are several people which > > look from time to > > time to edit whatever necessary in order to avoid spam and have the > > documentation focused and in order. If you want to propose a change on a > > protected page > > perhaps the best way is to discuss the change here at dev@j.a.o and it > will > > be eventually carried over. > > > > As a side note, jspwiki.a.o, as a backup site, contains the minimum pages > > to run the project page (mailing lists, news, where's the source code, > etc.) > > > > > > HTH, > > juan pablo > > > > > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:46 AM Brian Burch <br...@pingtoo.com> wrote: > > > >> I'm feeling pretty dumb today. After several weeks messing around with > >> M3 and my plugin, I decided to do a clean install by following the > >> extensive notes I made the first time around, but skipping all the dead > >> ends. My intention was to suggest some changes to the JSPWiki wiki > >> reflecting the gotchas I encountered before I did anything towards > >> deploying my own code. > >> > >> I've done lots of searches, and scraped through my old emails, but > >> nothing helped me. I found my question (with the title above) to the Dev > >> list almost a year ago, which was not answered directly. Juan Pablo > >> implemented my suggested changes at the time, which were simple text > >> blocks in an email. I hoped to make it easier for everyone this time, > >> but so far I've failed miserably. > >> > >> In my searches I stumbled across this page: > >> > >> http://jspwiki.apache.org/development/edit_website.html > >> > >> .. but it didn't tell me enough to get to the "static source" of the > >> pages I would like to be changed. > >> > >> Hidden under a hyperlink to "This Repository" I discovered: > >> > >> https://github.com/apache/jspwiki-site/ > >> > >> I separately cloned the trunk, as well as the jbake and asf-site > >> branches. It is true these directory trees contain a content > >> subdirectory, and even the source for a lot of pages (including, > >> ironically, the edit_website page), but not the page I was most > >> interested in having changed, which is: > >> > >> https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Getting%20Started > >> > >> I submitted several diffs to the apacheds project last year, so I > >> checked the repository for that web site (wiki)... all the relevant page > >> sources were where I expected to find them, with names I expected. > >> > >> I'm baffled and find myself having to ask for help yet again. Clearly, I > >> am missing a vital concept at the moment. Could anyone help by giving me > >> simple directions to obtain the source to the Getting Started page, > please? > >> > >> Apologies! > >> > >> Brian > >> > > > >
