Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-19 Thread Filippo Fadda
The documentation in the source is a great idea, and it's great having it in Futon. In my opinion the wiki is superfluous and should be removed. My 2 cents. -Filippo

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-19 Thread Noah Slater
On 19 May 2013 08:57, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > > 1) Yes! Let's get the docs/ sorted out! Moving NEWS/CHANGES into them. > > Moving CouchDB: The Definitive Guide into them. Incorporating the docs > into > > our merge and release procedure. D

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-19 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Robert Newson wrote: > I'm -0.9 (see http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html) on > switching to Confluence. The choice of wiki technology is a tiny > factor, in my opinion. No wiki is useful without active maintenance. > Unless there's a horde of editors just

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-18 Thread Noah Slater
Quick response: 1) Yes! Let's get the docs/ sorted out! Moving NEWS/CHANGES into them. Moving CouchDB: The Definitive Guide into them. Incorporating the docs into our merge and release procedure. Drumming up a docs team! (Dave! Dirkjan! Alexander! All the exclamation points!) 2) We will always ne

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Okstad
> > I'd prefer to have quality docs in the source code / .rst files if > possible. Wikis are ok for evolving stuff but if it's actually usage of > CouchDB proper, in the source is the way to go. You get history directly > tied to source code / release versions for free too. > I love having the man

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-09 Thread Robert Newson
I'm definitely in favour of building up the docs/ effort to replace the wiki as *the* place to find out how couchdb works. I can't quite picture what will be left of the wiki when that's achieved. I guess the pages where we list contributors and couchdb-based projects, but not too much else. I'm -

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-09 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
> Anyway, I'm really excited about CouchDB and I really want to contribute to > the global documentation out there, but MoinMoin ain't making it easy. I > really think that a move to a better documentation tool could be a huge > push to CouchDB's adoption. Thanks for listening. Have you seen the n

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-09 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
On 1 May 2013 20:50, Paul Okstad wrote: > Hello dev team, > > I'm following up on a brief discussion I had with the CouchDB twitter > account (my handle: @pokstad) regarding the official ASF wiki for CouchDB. > > I'm a CouchDB evangelist in both my personal projects and at my full time > job at a

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-08 Thread Joan Touzet
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:58:44PM -0700, Jens Alfke wrote: > I agree; it's pretty unpleasant to use. I've been contributing to it > intermittently for over a year but it's always a chore. +1 [snip] > We use Confluence internally at Couchbase, but in practice people don't seem > very happy wit

Re: wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-01 Thread Jens Alfke
On May 1, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Paul Okstad mailto:poks...@gmail.com>> wrote: I believe part of the reason for the lack of documentation is the lack luster moinmoin wiki. I agree; it's pretty unpleasant to use. I've been contributing to it intermittently for over a year but it's always a chore.

wiki choice: moinmoin vs confluence

2013-05-01 Thread Paul Okstad
Hello dev team, I'm following up on a brief discussion I had with the CouchDB twitter account (my handle: @pokstad) regarding the official ASF wiki for CouchDB. I'm a CouchDB evangelist in both my personal projects and at my full time job at a large engineering company (not Atlassian, lol). When