yup sounds like good old refactoring.. +1

On Wednesday, 17 August 2016, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sharan,
>
> I thought about that, and I believe we should not add a new page but
> rather complete the Material+for+Branding+and+Marketing page by using
> what's interesting in the General+Material+for+Branding+and+Marketing
> page and then drop it.
>
> To answer Taher's message, I believe we face a mess and this remembers me
> http://www.howtomakesenseofanymess.com/ Sharan suggested, I stopped at
> http://www.howtomakesenseofanymess.com/chapter/1/page/21/draw-your-mess/
>
> I think the right attitude when facing a mess, is to CUT in it.
>
>  * We need to drop, or at least put a lot of wiki pages in archives.
>  * For that we could create a specific OFBiz archive space, not linked
> from the other spaces.
>  * I also suggest to have only 2 other spaces, one completely open, where
> most pages should be.
>  * And one only accessible to PMC (and committers?) where really sensible
> information should be, these last pages should be very rare and only when
>    really needed.
>
> Then we can improve the content of "Documentation" menu-link from
> http://ofbiz.apache.org/ . Notably https://cwiki.apache.org/confl
> uence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Documentation+Index (hint: this is also
> kinda an answer to Taher)
>
> Trying to improve navigation before cutting in the mess, will have a
> tendency to fail... What do you think?
>
> Jacques
>
>
> Le 16/08/2016 à 14:58, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :
>
>> Hi Sharan,
>>
>> I suggested at https://cwiki.apache.org/confl
>> uence/display/OFBADMIN/Material+for+Branding+and+Marketing?
>> focusedCommentId=65865874#comment-65865874
>>
>> to remove the page below because I tried yesterday to move the images
>> from the page above to the one below. I wanted to merge the 2 pages, a
>> reason I afterwards renamed the page above. Another reason I afterwards
>> renamed the page is because when in Confluence you put special characters,
>> like parenthesis, etc., in the title then you don't get a nice title for
>> the page, but a number :/
>>
>> But it's hard to *move* attachments in bulk in Confluence. You have to do
>> it one by one :/
>>
>> So I tried to download them all and upload them back to the page below.
>> But the process failed in the middle. You might also notice that it's hard
>> to *remove* attachments in bulk in Confluence. You have to do it one by one
>> :/
>>
>> That's why I suggested to put this page in archive (actually deleting it
>> lets it in the space's trash https://confluence.atlassian.c
>> om/doc/delete-or-restore-a-page-139429.html) and to create a new one. I
>> also tried to watch the Powerpoint there (on WIndows using the the
>> Powerpoint viewer!) but it failed, so there is nothing to keep there! I
>> suggest to drop it and create a brand new page, inspired by the page below,
>> for the ideas you rightly suggested.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>>
>> Le 16/08/2016 à 11:03, Sharan Foga a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi Everyone
>>>
>>> We currently have a page in the wiki that was used initially for
>>> branding and marketing but has now has a lot of broken links.
>>>
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/General+
>>> Material+for+Branding+and+Marketing
>>>
>>> The logo files don't need to be on this page as they are all available
>>> elsewhere. Rather than remove it I suggest that it could be tidied up and
>>> that the page focus (and name) could be changed to make it into one that
>>> links to OFBiz white papers, OFBIz presentations, etc.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if we already have something like this or if it covered as
>>> part of OFBiz in the news but I think having this type of material
>>> available could be good for newcomers.  What do people think?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Sharan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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