Is this discussion on the infra list.
sent from handheld device excuse typos On Apr 7, 2011 8:51 PM, "Benson Margulies" <[email protected]> wrote: > You should really read all of JoeS's writing on this topic, but, in short: > > Infrastructure draws a sharp distinction between 'the web site' and > 'the wiki' for a project. They want 'the web site' to be published, > via svn, as static HTML. No Confluence, no PHP, no nothing. > > To that end, Joe built a new CMS from scratch. Its uses markdown to > ease the markup process, and it operates on files stored in svn. There > are apparently javascript scriptlets to give you some level of > convenience in editing in it. I haven't use it yet, myself. > > The original position of infra was that all use of confluence for 'the > web site' would cease at Apache. Confluence would remain in use only > for 'the wiki'. > > Dan Kulp of CXF and other projects really, really, didn't want to give > up the convenience and expressive range of Confluence as a CMS for > 'the web site'. So, he built a brand new static export tool for > confluence that meets the stated requirements of the infrastructure > team, and deployed it for CXF. > > Infrastructure will insist that Mahout achieve static publication > *somehow*. The simplest thing we can do is adopt Dan's technology to > render the confluence content into static HTML.
