Mark and all, On 1/5/2010 5:30 PM, Mark Diggory wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Tim Donohue<[email protected]> wrote: >> As a bit of background on all this Confluence talk to the Developers out >> there. DuraSpace is currently investigating migrating the DSpace Wiki >> from MediaWiki over to Confluence (expect to see more announcements >> about this shortly). > ... > It would be ideal to see a place to share this experience (Hmm, a > Confluence Space?) and have such a porting activity can have some > opportunity for feedback. > > Anyhow, I am very excited to see some resources being thrown at this. > Am looking forward to the point you guys bring it out into the > community.
RE: moving the Wiki to Confluence... DuraSpace is definitely looking to get the community involved in this process -- an email should be going out shortly to ask for involvement. Currently, the initial issue with moving the Wiki is whether we can truly share the *same* Confluence as Fedora, yet still keep our "wiki.dspace.org" address. We wouldn't want the DSpace Wiki to be under a "fedora-commons.org" address, as that could be confusing to our DSpace Community/Users. It may also mean some reorganization/restructuring of the current Confluence Wiki will need to take place to support this. This work is something that Brad is currently working on with another DuraSpace staff member (Carissa). When it comes time to actually test migrating content, the community will definitely be informed about it, and will be encouraged to help improve/test/cleanup the process. The first test migration will likely happen in the next few weeks -- but, again, more official details will be sent out soon. >> But, I feel we need to have more >> discussion (likely after 1.6) around how we'd all like to manage the >> Documentation in the longer term. > > I'm more motivated to see this happen sooner than later. Mostly > because I started working on the porting last summer and got > side-tracked. When I finally had a brief amount of time this break to > focus on it, the time it took to complete was indeed minimal. I want > to see it done and the community moving forward in a new better space. > Especially because my time is limited and I don't want to see this > still languishing in a couple months. I understand your desire to make this happen sooner since you have the time now. But, there are other things worth keeping in mind: * As I mentioned, the current Confluence Wiki may undergo restructuring in order to allow for DSpace and Fedora to both use it without mixing their contents. This restructuring could also affect the web addresses or paths where your currently uploaded Documentation resides -- and we definitely wouldn't want to encourage broader use of Confluence until we have figured out how content will be organized within Confluence. * Also, although again I appreciate your time spent helping with this process, I think you've performed a "good enough" test and figured things out well enough that we could make the change over to Confluence at a later time (if we all deem it necessary). So, I'm hoping that means we wouldn't need to use too much of your time in the future :) * Finally, moving the primary documentation to Confluence would obviously would first need to be brought to a vote before moving forward. I'd prefer to wait on this vote till after 1.6.0 is tagged, just because it will be less confusing for us all. However, that doesn't mean we cannot have more discussion or testing of Confluence now. I think a lot of great points have already been brought up, and I'd encourage further discussion on this now. > I thank you for your point of view. But like I said, I'm not > interested in "stalling" on utilizing this as a tool after finally > getting it setup. I intend to continue to utilize the Confluence > version for my documentation production and invite anyone seeking an > easier manner of creating the documentation to feel free to > participate there as well. We can certainly label it "Experimental" > until we reach a more consensus. Yes, I think labeling this as "Experimental" is best for now. Obviously, you are welcome to use it as a tool to create documentation. However, as the official Documentation is still in DocBook, that means any changes need to make their way back into the DocBook files. So, you would need to send any updates back to Jeff as well, in order to ensure they make it into the official documentation. - Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
