Jacopo, I believe my last version http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/Kww (KISS enhanced) is better, WDYTF ?
Jacques PS : this is really interesting to not overlook new features added. I invite everybody (specifically contributors and commiters) to look at it and add comments if needed (if you see something you think important forgotten or put in the last features group : Misc) ----- Message d'origine ----- De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : <dev@ofbiz.apache.org> Envoyé : vendredi 26 octobre 2007 09:08 Objet : Re: Downloading OFBiz with minimal prerequisites WAS: [Re: Downloading OFBiz] > Jacques, > > thanks for your help! > About the layout; I don't know, but maybe a list based page it is easier > to quickly read: > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/-Qs > > rather than the paragraph based new one: > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/Kww > > Of course, I'm not saying that the original is better, there are a lot > of layout and content improvements that could be done to it. > > I'd like to get the feedback from others. > > Jacopo > > Jacques Le Roux wrote: > > I tried to edit the the "main new features of the month" (aka. > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/-Qs). > > > > I beginned by adding a point about the new for widgets examples in the > > Example component ("Examples of widget usages have been > > added") > > > > Then I decided to group by themes using head styles. > > After an hour, I finally ended with http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/Kww. Now I'm > > not sure that it's better (easier to read and maintain) > > than the original. > > It's surely easier to edit (less "*" everywhere) in a *real editor* (I use > > Scite for Wiki Markups, Confluence drives me creasy) than > > the original, but easier to read ? > > > > WDYTF (What Do You Think Folks) ? > > > > Jacques > > > > De : "David E Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I think there is some ASF infra stuff for periodic automated builds, > >> and if we do this we should definitely get something automated setup > >> to reduce long term effort required... > >> > >> -David > >> > >> > >> On Oct 20, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Scott Gray wrote: > >> > >>> Sounds good to me although I'm a bit short on time lately to help > >>> out with > >>> it, are there any Apache protocols we need to be aware of? > >>> > >>> Scott > >>> > >>> On 20/10/2007, Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> It seems that the original thread has been hijacked by the Linux > >>>> enthusiasts :-) so I'm restarting it now from here. > >>>> > >>>> Here is the content of the original message: > >>>> > >>>> I think that we should provide an easy way to download (by ftp) a > >>>> compressed archive to the ones that are just interested in evaluating > >>>> the product. *Minimal* prerequisites should be necessary to > >>>> download and > >>>> run OFBiz in this way so that users with a low bandwidth > >>>> connection to > >>>> the Internet, and running on a box with Jdk 1.5 installed would be > >>>> able > >>>> to download (possibly in multiple chunks) a compressed archive, > >>>> unpack > >>>> it and run "ant run-install". > >>>> > >>>> Of course, as soon as the version 4.0 will be officially released, > >>>> they > >>>> will have a file to download; however I don't think that the > >>>> release 4.0 > >>>> will be the right version to consider for an evaluation... the > >>>> trunk is > >>>> the best option and we should encourage people to see it in action. > >>>> > >>>> A simple solution is this: create a weekly or, better (as > >>>> suggested by > >>>> Jacques), monthly svn snapshot (svn export), then compress it and > >>>> publish it somewhere in a very visible area of the main page of the > >>>> website; we could also provide a link to the "main new features of > >>>> the > >>>> month" (e.g. http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/-Qs). > >>>> > >>>> What do you think? > >>>> > >>>> Jacopo > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >
