Hi,

welcome to the list Oli!

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 5:59 PM Kuebel, Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone
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> my name is Oli and I would be happy if I could support you with your
> project.
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> Currently I do not have specific training documents or any other kind of
> content, but what I could offer you are my ideas and sometimes even an
> opinion ;)
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> After an initial discussion with Sönke and a review of the previous mail
> discussions, I have the following comments / suggestions:
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> # Prototyping:
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> At the moment the discussed topics are all still quite abstract and less
> tangible.
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> I think that it would be helpful to try out the discussed issues on a
> living example.
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> What do you think about a kind of prototyping area where you could try
> things out and discuss about a more concrete object? In addition, a
> visualized working status could possibly gather more contributors.
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Yes, I agree. Let's get started and we can figure out things as we go
along. I believe Isabel started a Jira to do just that.
If we find that something doesn't work we can change it later.


> # Separate sections for content and engine
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> As far as I understood, there should be a kind of engine (Maven Build) in
> the target vision, which generates presentations or training documents
> based on Asciidoc and the input of some parameters.
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> What about two different subprojects here - one for the engine and one for
> the actual content?
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> The advantage would be that you could make the Approval/Review processes
> different. The one for the engine is stricter (e.g. review by a committer
> is mandatory) while the content area is more informal (e.g. changes allowed
> by anyone followed by lazy consensus).
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I'm not sure if we really need a subproject or if just having everything in
one big repo is fine for now. I'm leaning towards the latter.


> # Non-technical training documents:
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> So far, most of the planned training courses deal with technical topics.
> The focus is currently mostly on Apache projects and their environment. I
> think that especially at the beginning the target group of the project will
> be here. That's why this focus makes sense now.
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> As far as I understood should the initial structure of content be based on
> technical products (at least that is one option :) )
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> However, should we plan with other non-IT topics right at the beginning?
> Perhaps there will be some training documents for planting tomatoes or
> meteorology in future? Or should we start with the content we have and make
> a restructuring of the content storage in the future?
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I initially said "Yes" to planting tomatoes but now I'm not sure anymore.
Technical content goes stale, luckily we're in a technical community so the
chances are that there will be enough people around to take care of that.
I'm not sure how many tomato experts we have - on the other hand that
content might not go stale as fast either.

Cheers,
Lars


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> I'm looking forward to your feedback
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> Best regards
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> Oli
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