On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Brian Ewins wrote:
> > > Henri Yandell wrote: > > > > I'm not so bothered by who uses Maven, but by who is using Maven for their > > websites. The L&F and structure is different to the primary top level > > Jakarta site. > > > > My only question here is: Should I push this on general@jakarta, or > > initially at maven@jakarta? > > I would suspect you want 'general'. Or even 'infrastructure'. Eventually yes. Don't want to blindside the Maven folks though :) > > Does anyone here agree with me? and are there any features of the Maven > > site generation which would help? > > Yes, it would be nice if Jakarta had a consistent information > architecture. Yes, maven can help with that (look at the 'Project > Documentation' section on mavenized sites). Yes, Jakarta should have a > consistent look. Yes, maven can help with that (you can reskin it if you > want). > > However, Jakarta is a loose federation of projects; not everyone is > going to want to use maven. Much as it might be anathema to say it on This is fine. The problem for Jakarta is that the Maven generated websites do not fit the existing L&F. Downloads, sibling projects, general info are all missing or setup in different ways. > this list[1], the project which is trying to do what you ask is Forrest. > Their explicit goal is to aggregate xml documentation from many projects > and create a consistent site out of that. There was some chat a month If all of Jakarta were to be mandated to be built in the same way etc, Forrest would be the way to go. > This doesn't help with everything - Forrest does not currently have > anything you could call an 'information architecture'[2], it lets you > put anything pretty much anywhere. The first step of using Forrest for Jakarta I imagine. Define overall infoarch/l&f. > Maven is much better at this, it > provides a 'project documentation' section which /is/ consistent across > projects, because its entirely generated for you. The only 'standard' > link maven is missing is a 'download' link for releases, but it wouldn't > be difficult to standardize this and more of the jakarta navigation stuff. I think Jason has done some stuff using Reactor on Commons back in Jul 2002. I'm not sure what the state of this is: http://www.apache.org/~jvanzyl/jakarta-commons/ If this were to be made a success, it could then apply to all of Jakarta. Any idea how to generate this, where the source is? Is it all in the commons tree, or are there parts in different places? Hen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
