On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Bob Harner <[email protected]> wrote:
> -1 from me too. We have far too much invested in Confluence at this
> point to move off of it when we don't have to. Besides, Jekyll looks
> like a big step backward in functionality from Confluence.
>
> A quick reminder of just a fraction of the Confluence features we're
> currently using:
>
> 1) inclusion one page inside of others, to avoid duplicating content

Jekyll does this, better.

>
> 2) generating "Related Articles" sections based on labels (e.g.
> http://tapestry.apache.org/type-coercion.html)

Jekyll does this, better.

>
> 3) Automatic Prev/Next page navigation links based on an ordering of
> pages in a hierarchy (e.g. the FAQ & Cookbook pages)

Jekyll can do this.

>
> 4) Automatic "table of contents" listing sub-pages of a page (e.g. on
> the right side of http://tapestry.apache.org/documentation.html)

Not clear about this.

>
> 5) Automatic link verification

>
> 6) Easy publishing without having to drop to a command line

It's not easy. It's incredibly balky, and involves putting fake
updates into multiple pages in order to get them to publish, as well
as manually updating a bunch of elements across many pages (such as
version numbers). And it is slow!

>
> 7) Automatic link updates when a page is renamed
>
> 8) Email notification of changes

GitHub does this.

>
> I think we need implement the
> http://www.dankulp.com/blog/2012/03/svnpubsub-for-confluence-sites/
> approach as previously discussed.
>
> Uli driving the effort sounds good to me, and I'm happy to help. I
> would rather free Howard to focus on the much more challenging JS
> rewrite work than the more mundane documentation issues anyway.
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> And I will be happy to explain what the tools do and how to use them and 
>> even drive the effort.
>>
>> Uli
>>
>> On 02.11.2012 09:19, Ulrich Stärk wrote:
>>> -1.
>>>
>>> We didn't even have a discussion about this, let alone a vote. I'm open for 
>>> whatever documentation
>>> tool we find does the job best but the sources for the official 
>>> documentation will not be hosted
>>> somewhere where it's not under the control of the PMC and we won't use a 
>>> technology that not
>>> everyone has endorsed. Therefore, discussion first, than a vote, than an 
>>> implementation.
>>>
>>> Uli
>>>
>>> On 01.11.2012 18:10, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
>>>> I've taken some initial steps in setting up a Jekyll-based
>>>> documentation site for Tapestry.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/hlship/tapestry-site
>>>>
>>>> Please contact me if you want to help; I can add you as a committer to
>>>> the project, or accept patches.  I will only grant access to people
>>>> who have a signed Apache CLA.
>>>>
>>>> The big challenge is our existing documentation.  It looks like
>>>> there's some tools for extracting Confluence Wiki to Markdown, but I
>>>> haven't figured out exactly what they do or how they work:
>>>>
>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/conversion-utilities/cwiki/
>>>>
>>>
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I'd be happy for someone to take this off my hands, but the current
system is very constraining.

Confluence is being end-of-lifed at Apache. Staying on Confluence is
not a long term solution.

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