So I did a quick test on found that there doesn't seem to be an easy way for someone new to quickly edit a wiki page and I think its worth discussing how we should handle this. The main reason I see this as a problem is around documentation. If the community at large can't touch the documentation then it's left solely to the few committers to create and improve.
Here's the process I went through. 1. Cleared out all my cookies to remove my authorized identity 2. Navigated to the Developer Resources page 3. Click on the Confluence Wiki Space link 4. When prompted I registered as a new user to confluence 5. Navigated to the Apache Shiro project 6. Tried to Edit a page Basically, no Edit or Add link shows up to me. I checked other Apache projects to see if there was a standard and found that I COULD add and edit pages for many of the other projects. There's seems to be two different ways other projects handle free form community editing 1. What Cassandra does, where anyone can contribute to any part of the site. BTW they don't use Confluence so if you test this you'll have to create an account on their own wiki. 2. What Felix does, where they have two Confluence spaces. One locked down like ours and one complete open for full wiki style contribution. The open space seems mostly focused on documentation. I think the Felix route is probably best. Thoughts? Alex Salazar 571-276-7777 [email protected]
