Re: [site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-26 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 26 May 07, at 1:47 AM 26 May 07, Henri Yandell wrote: Will do - not that I have much thought-wise yet. I also think the current website and structure is not terrible; so to solve the complaints we need to understand why people are complaining. Some more thoughts Go to maven.apache

Re: [site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-25 Thread Henri Yandell
Probably; maybe; I think I'm still playing catchup on understanding the problem :) On 5/25/07, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Agreed. Here is how I imagine this being laid out: - each specific example would be in a plugin that it related to, making it possible to go to a plugin as a "r

Re: [site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-25 Thread Henri Yandell
Will do - not that I have much thought-wise yet. I also think the current website and structure is not terrible; so to solve the complaints we need to understand why people are complaining. Some more thoughts Go to maven.apache.org. Minor irritation - the visited links are the same colo

Re: [site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-25 Thread Brett Porter
Agreed. Here is how I imagine this being laid out: - each specific example would be in a plugin that it related to, making it possible to go to a plugin as a "reference" page if you already know what you are doing and are looking to cut-and-paste something in. eg. http://maven.apache.org/pl

Re: [site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-25 Thread Henri Yandell
I think so. The separation of authoring is good - but there needs to be a good "How do I do Xxx?" -> plugin lookup; and a good central FAQ for the plugins. ie) "How do I add java.awt.headless to my tests?" That can then link over to the surefire page on system properties. So categorise a big F

Re: [site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-25 Thread Brett Porter
+1 on both. Important thing for "plugin documentation needs to be folded into main documentation" though - I assume you mean this in a logical way (ie, strong contextual links from the documentation to the plugin documentation), and not a physical way? - Brett On 26/05/2007, at 4:02 AM, He

Re: [site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-25 Thread Jason van Zyl
Hen, How about doing mockups in the wiki? Of the actual layout, then people can tool around and you can flesh out what you're thinking. On 25 May 07, at 2:02 PM 25 May 07, Henri Yandell wrote: I didn't notice any threads on the doc organization topic, so thought I'd start one. Apologies if

Re: [site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-25 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 25 May 07, at 2:02 PM 25 May 07, Henri Yandell wrote: I didn't notice any threads on the doc organization topic, so thought I'd start one. Apologies if I missed the right place, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the noisiest list I'm on. Compare and contrast: http://maven.apache.org/guides/ and http:

[site] Maven documentation thoughts

2007-05-25 Thread Henri Yandell
I didn't notice any threads on the doc organization topic, so thought I'd start one. Apologies if I missed the right place, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the noisiest list I'm on. Compare and contrast: http://maven.apache.org/guides/ and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ --- Firstly, there is no real