Could we use a different color / theme for UPT? With some kind of dev logo?
Susan
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From: Andrew Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subj: Re: [uportal-dev] where to document the uPortal 3 efforts in the wiki
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Eric,
> Is just putting a {note} at the top of each page good enough for now?
Yes, I think.
While uPortal is gearing up to have this problem of what documentation applies
to what versions *more* with the present uP3 efforts, this is not a new problem
for uPortal. Cf. the way that the wiki documents PersonDirectory, with pages
attempting to explain how it works in the different versions and acknowledging
the change over time.
Andrew
I agree with the idea of renaming the current uPortal 3 (UPT) space to
Archived Portal Exploration and putting a relevant header on the space
explaining what the documentation is for in greater detail.
Documenting the current effort in the current uPortal space is good for
continuity but I'm not quite sure where to put the new documents and how to
ensure people understand that this is documentation for in-development code.
The immediate need is that I need to document the new Maven build management
system and helper Ant tasks but I don't want to cause confusion for people
looking for help with uPortal 2.6. Is just putting a {note} at the top of each
page good enough for now?
-Eric
Andrew Petro wrote: Jason,
> I almost wonder if we move the pages into an Archive section
> of the uPortal space, and then delete the uPortal3 space.
-1
I think the most confusing thing we could do would be to put these pages into
the uPortal space. Confluence savvy users may understand that Confluence is a
tree and that since the trunk of the tree in which these archived pages inhabit
is "Archive" these pages don't actually apply to the uPortal they're trying to
work with, but many users will be confused, having done a search in the uPortal
space on confluence, to come across pages that have little applicability.
A separate space named "Archived portal exploration" or the like might be
better -- maybe the root of your objection, Jason, was to the name "Sandbox" as
being insufficiently expressive of something that is frozen.
That separation of space is doing important work for clarity. One good move
might be to slap a header into the theme for that space making it especially
clear that what is documented is archived explorations into a better portal,
and not necessarily uPortal itself. That way when users do naive Confluence
searches and come across these pages, they are more able to make sense of what
they have found.
On Sep 17, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Andrew Petro wrote:
I wonder if it would be clearer to re-name the entire current "uPortal 3"
space to something like "uPortal Sandbox"
I think this is confusing. I think we need to make it clear that no more work
is going into the codebase, and Sandbox seems ambiguous. I almost wonder if we
move the pages into an Archive section of the uPortal space, and then delete
the uPortal3 space.
And then I wonder whether creating a new uPortal 3 wiki space is a good idea,
or if the uPortal 3 efforts should be undertaken in the existing uPortal wiki
space. The change the project has made in its approach to uPortal 3 is to be
more evolutionary. uPortal 3 *is* uPortal 2, cleaned up quite a bit and with
pointed improvements. So maybe, just as the existing code evolves to become
uPortal 3, the existing wiki space evolves to become a wiki space that
documents uPortal, inclusive of uPortal 3.
+1 I think they key factor in our new strategy moving forward is that the New
uPortal 3 is uportal -- with a direct lineage to previous efforts. Given that
shift, I don't think a separate wiki space is really appropriate -- I'd rather
see a linear release progression.
Likewise, I don't think it will be necessary to have an entirely new uPortal
manual, more a matter of growing and enhancing the existing uPortal manual wiki
space to document the project as it grows and is enhanced.
+1 again.
Jason
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