So as previously posted, on the ASF Infra side we've added anonymous editing to 
the CMS.  Joe Schaefer and I did some more hacking this weekend.

  https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_cms_new_features_for

In addition I've also added a little blue pencil icon to most pages.  When you 
click it it attempts to make it clear we want your contribution regardless if 
you are a committer or not.  As well it gives you a link appropriate for you; 
if you are a ASF committer you are prompted for user/pass, if you are not a 
committer you go straight in as anonymous.

So anyone can edit the website!  If you are an ASF committer (even if you are 
not a committer on this project, yet) you can edit as yourself.

If you are an ASF committer and not an OpenEJB committer, you should navigate 
to the 'Diff' section and use the 'Mail Diff' feature.

When someone edits the website and sends in a patch via the 'Mail Diff' 
feature, we OpenEJB committers simply need to click the "Clone URL" link at the 
top of the notification that comes from the CMS.  Then you can review and 
commit without having to do anything more than click buttons.  It's very 
github-like.

With this our website is now incredibly streamlined.  Anyone can contribute 
near effortlessly.  We can of course continue to make improvements where we see 
we need them.

With this we may not need the TOMEE confluence space I also created this 
weekend before digging into the CMS features.  I can't see an advantage to 
steering people away from contributing to the website.

Thoughts?  Comments?


-David

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