Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
David Crossley wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Roy T. Fielding wrote: I don't see any point in having this conversation every year. Whoever is willing to fix the content on incubator, please feel free to remove the entire site (except the project status files) and start over with whatever t

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread David Crossley
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Roy T. Fielding wrote: > > > >I don't see any point in having this conversation every year. > >Whoever is willing to fix the content on incubator, please feel > >free to remove the entire site (except the project status files) > >and start over with whatever tool you deem

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread David Crossley
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Leo Simons wrote: > > > > > I think what it comes down to is what we want here for the > > > incubator is a "stable", or preferably "mature" tool, and > > > forrest really is currently too much of a moving target > > > > That can be addressed,

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread David Crossley
Ross Gardler wrote: > Mads Toftum wrote: > >Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > > >>The fact that we have to rely on a human being means to me (and probably > >>where Mads is coming from) that the entire workflow is broken. -- justin > >> > > > >Exactly! Depending on a 3rd party as part of the process is

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread David Crossley
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Mads Toftum wrote: > > > Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? > > > When someone said that at apachecon, I thought it was a joke - I'm > > > beginning to understand more and more of why people are annoyed. > > > > Why?

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread David Crossley
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Torsten Curdt wrote: > > As long as everyone has to have a tool locally to build and commit a > > site in order to change *content*, people *will* find the tool annoying. > > A smaller tool maybe less ...but it's *is* an additional step that > > should not be required.

how to make some requested mods to current site (Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool)

2006-01-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Just the tabbed and menu navigation. And some other little bits that no one probably uses. FTR, I hate the tabs, find the layout unreadable,... And, no, I don't want the site to generate a friggin PDF. I've known

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Ross Gardler wrote: ... As I understood your recent comments, you (Forrest) are actively working to make the workflow simpler, such than anyone should be able to download a binary, grab our site from SVN, build and publish. Correct? Yes that is correct. As an example,

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Mads Toftum wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:41:35AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: The fact that we have to rely on a human being means to me (and probably where Mads is coming from) that the entire workflow is broken. -- justin Exactly! Depending on a 3rd party as part of the process is

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: How would even having a local copy of the JARs prevent the problem that Forrest won't actually generate the site? I don't believe that to be correct, but we can clarify with David and Ross. As far as I am aware the site builds fine. There h

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2006-01-01 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: [SNIP] I don't see any point in having this conversation every year. Whoever is willing to fix the content on incubator, please feel free to remove the entire site (except the project status files) and start over with

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:34 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Just the tabbed and menu navigation. And some other little bits that no one probably uses. FTR, I hate the tabs, find the layout unreadable, and nobody sees that the important documentation has never been updated. Half the screen real esta

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > I don't want a staging server at all! It's *massive* overkill and > something I don't want to have any part of. Fine, let's take the build server out of this equation, because it addresses somewhat different needs. > The way to solve the 'how do I build this?' for a p

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir, > [David] has been studly about it, but could he be studly today? > I updated the main projects page and need that to be published. Hopefully so. IIRC, David is in Oz, and so it should be just past 5AM for him. --- Noel ---

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Mads Toftum
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:41:35AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > The fact that we have to rely on a human being means to me (and probably > where Mads is coming from) that the entire workflow is broken. -- justin > Exactly! Depending on a 3rd party as part of the process is what really blows

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:47:51PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > if you look at plans for site-dev, they don't involve people doing > > > their own builds, they involve a build server. > > > Anakia sites don't need a build server! I w

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
He has been studly about it, but could he be studly today? I updated the main projects page and need that to be published... Noel J. Bergman wrote: Mads Toftum wrote: Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? When someone said that at apachecon, I thought it was a joke -

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > if you look at plans for site-dev, they don't involve people doing > > their own builds, they involve a build server. > Anakia sites don't need a build server! I would never feel comfortable > about committing a change that I couldn't review

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > How would even having a local copy of the JARs prevent the problem that > Forrest won't actually generate the site? I don't believe that to be correct, but we can clarify with David and Ross. > Don't get me wrong; having everything included in incubator/site *is* a > r

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Leo Simons wrote: > > > I think what it comes down to is what we want here for the > > incubator is a "stable", or preferably "mature" tool, and > > forrest really is currently too much of a moving target > > That can be addressed

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Mads Toftum wrote: > > Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? > > When someone said that at apachecon, I thought it was a joke - I'm > > beginning to understand more and more of why people are annoyed. > > Why

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:35:38PM +0100, Torsten Curdt wrote: > As long as everyone has to have a tool locally to build and commit a > site in order to change *content*, people *will* find the tool annoying. > A smaller tool maybe less ...but it's *is* an additional step that > should > not be r

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Leo Simons wrote: > I think what it comes down to is what we want here for the > incubator is a "stable", or preferably "mature" tool, and > forrest really is currently too much of a moving target That can be addressed, in part, by packaging Forrest in our site build structure, so that when you c

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ross Gardler wrote: > In my opinion sticking with Forrest will be damaging to both parties unless: > - people here are willing to actually respond to Davids proposals > (not necessarily agree, but at least respond) I agree that it isn't fair to always file feature requests in the form of complai

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Mads Toftum wrote: > Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? > When someone said that at apachecon, I thought it was a joke - I'm > beginning to understand more and more of why people are annoyed. Why? The man has been tremendous about it. He publishes daily. And if you loo

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Mads Toftum
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 10:34:04AM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Mads Toftum wrote: > > the logo for Apachecon that finished more than two weeks ago > > Fixed the next time that David regenerates the site. > Whoa! so the workflow is tied to David watching for commits? When someone said that at

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Mads Toftum wrote: > I don't see much sophistication in the current site Just the tabbed and menu navigation. And some other little bits that no one probably uses. > the logo for Apachecon that finished more than two weeks ago Fixed the next time that David regenerates the site. > > Personall

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Leo Simons
Hi gang, On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:54:44PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? > > Either see what improvements we can get from Forrest, or convert to anakia > and have a less sophisticated site. > > Personally, I'd like to s

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ross, > Forrest has been moving towards the site-build proposal steadily. Most of > our devs are on the site-dev list and see what little is discussed there. > We are actually much closer to it than people not onthe Forrest lists will > realise. We've not reported to the sie-dev list because we ar

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Torsten Curdt
Personally, I'd like to see if the Forrest folks can "redeem" the product's reputation here, and make people happy in a timely manner. Incubator has been using Forrest for how long? So how long do you want to go on with something that seems to generate a lot of annoyance with anyone but you an

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Ross Gardler
Noel J. Bergman wrote: What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? Either see what improvements we can get from Forrest, or convert to anakia and have a less sophisticated site. Personally, I'd like to see if the Forrest folks can "redeem" the product's reputation

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread rgardler_apache
> David, > >> Some troubles at the ASF are that: >> a) We cannot run java-based applications on apache >> hardware (perhaps when the zones.a.o machine is >> out of testing phase). > >> b) There are various projects using Forrest >> but no ASF-wide installation for them to use >> server-side. > > -

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-31 Thread Mads Toftum
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:54:44PM -0500, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Either see what improvements we can get from Forrest, or convert to anakia > and have a less sophisticated site. > I don't see much sophistication in the current site - or is it the logo for Apachecon that finished more than two we

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
David, > Some troubles at the ASF are that: > a) We cannot run java-based applications on apache > hardware (perhaps when the zones.a.o machine is > out of testing phase). > b) There are various projects using Forrest > but no ASF-wide installation for them to use > server-side. - zones is out

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? Either see what improvements we can get from Forrest, or convert to anakia and have a less sophisticated site. Personally, I'd like to see if the Forrest folks can "redeem" the product's reputation here, and make people hap

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > I had to download a JRE for my box. > C'mon, it's a java-based app after all. FWIW, so is anakia, which is what we use to build the main ASF site, and many other ASF sites. So a JRE is pretty universally required, and available. > Same thing will happen with this new Super Simple Tool > -- y

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread David Crossley
Torsten Curdt wrote: > Sorry, don't get it... > > At work we are running continuum watching svn commits and > then automatically rebuilding our site with forrest. > Noone has to care about html nor forrest. Just check out > the xdocs and commit them - done. > > My 2 cents Fantastic to hear. Som

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Torsten Curdt
Sorry, don't get it... At work we are running continuum watching svn commits and then automatically rebuilding our site with forrest. Noone has to care about html nor forrest. Just check out the xdocs and commit them - done. My 2 cents cheers -- Torsten PGP.sig Description: This is a digitall

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread David Crossley
Ross Gardler wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > >>Forrest is much more than the "simple site generation tool" that the > >>subject says is wanted here, I recognise that Forrest may not be the > >>right tool for this job. I happen to disagree, but I recognise the > >>possibility. > > > >Well, if

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread David Crossley
Leo Simons wrote: > OK ok ok ok. Enough already. Done and done. The incubator has more pressing > things > to worry about right now besides site generation tools. Please drop this > thread or > take it elsewhere (I suggested site-dev@ before). I too see no need to squash such threads. Sure, take

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread David Crossley
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? > > Switch the incubator to anakia. =) > > FWIW, Brett claims that Maven 2 gives up all of the goofy workflow problems > with Maven 1, but I'm not familiar with it. I'

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Leo Simons
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:21:32AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:12:14AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? > > Switch the incubator to anakia. =) Yup. > FWIW, Brett claims that Maven 2 giv

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: I disagree in trying to put the kibosh on the thread. It was very healthy to bring out the frustration that had been simmering, and I think that we all learned something. Agreed What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? Well as I have

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:12:14AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? Switch the incubator to anakia. =) FWIW, Brett claims that Maven 2 gives up all of the goofy workflow problems with Maven 1, but I'm not familiar with it.

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
I disagree in trying to put the kibosh on the thread. It was very healthy to bring out the frustration that had been simmering, and I think that we all learned something. What shall we do then in incubator? Any idea for a productive outcome? geir Leo Simons wrote: OK ok ok ok. Enough alrea

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Leo Simons
OK ok ok ok. Enough already. Done and done. The incubator has more pressing things to worry about right now besides site generation tools. Please drop this thread or take it elsewhere (I suggested site-dev@ before). Gaah. Apologies to all for opening up a can of worms. My goal with spending tim

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Forrest is much more than the "simple site generation tool" that the subject says is wanted here, I recognise that Forrest may not be the right tool for this job. I happen to disagree, but I recognise the possibility. Well, if you believe Forrest could be, then do it

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Tim Williams
On 12/29/05, Greg Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 01:12:52PM +1100, David Crossley wrote: > >... > > If people have issues with Forrest, then please take them > > to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. It is totally unfair > > to a new project to just criticise it from af

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Hopefully my last post. I'd have stopped a while ago, but I thought I was being helpful by telling you about a use case that I thought legit that had me stumbling and to show I wasn't just whining. Ross Gardler wrote: [SNIP] Now please let the "dead horse" drop. Simply admit that you don't

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-30 Thread Ross Gardler
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but this reminds me of the old joke : Patient : "Doctor, my arm hurts when I life it like this..." Doctor : "Don't lift it like that..." I needed to "lift my arm". I had a page that I didn't wish to have as part of the site (i.e

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but this reminds me of the old joke : Patient : "Doctor, my arm hurts when I life it like this..." Doctor : "Don't lift it like that..." I needed to "lift my arm". I had a page that I didn't wish to have as part of the site (i.e. I didn't want the site

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread David Crossley
Greg Stein wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > >... > > If people have issues with Forrest, then please take them > > to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. It is totally unfair > > to a new project to just criticise it from afar. We get > > very few emails to the user mailing list about any issues >

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 01:12:52PM +1100, David Crossley wrote: >... > If people have issues with Forrest, then please take them > to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. It is totally unfair > to a new project to just criticise it from afar. We get > very few emails to the user mailing list about a

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread David Crossley
David Crossley wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > > For the next one, I'll do that. For this one, I'll assume it's in > > safe and responsible hands. > > http://forrest.apache.org/docs/faq.html#crawler I meant to also say i just added that FAQ today. -David ---

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread David Crossley
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >The Forrest project uses a tool called JIRA [1] so that users like you > >can add feedback/feature requests like this one. Your request is much > >more likely to get addressed there than on the incubator mailing list. >

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread David Crossley
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > >Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > >>What's wrong with the xdoc/Anakia approach? > > > >Nothing, necessarily. David Crossley tried to put together a constructive > >discourse regarding site construction almost two months ago, and got almost > >no f

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ross Gardler wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Fair drawback, since I doubt that if one edits the HTML in SVN directly, > > that Confluence would be able to pick up the changes. OTOH, isn't this > > how Cocoon is doing their docs now, albeit with Daisy? > Daisy does not write to SVN so the onl

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: ... Confluence isn't that, and you can't work offline. Fair drawback, since I doubt that if one edits the HTML in SVN directly, that Confluence would be able to pick up the changes. OTOH, isn't this how Cocoon is

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Ross Gardler wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: a) edit b) render c) examine. if not right, GOTO a) d) commit e) deploy a,c are entirely my choice of tool, so it's easy. d,e use one standard common tool. it's easy. b needs to be simple and easy The ForrestB

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Mads Toftum wrote: > The one thing I never understood is why incubator insists on placing the > whole forrest burden on new projects - as if they don't have enough > other things to worry about than learning a system that they're likely > to ditch as soon as they have the chance? Huh? Projects h

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Ross Gardler wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: a) edit b) render c) examine. if not right, GOTO a) d) commit e) deploy a,c are entirely my choice of tool, so it's easy. d,e use one standard common tool. it's easy. b needs to be simple and easy The ForrestBot does b, d and e of your,

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Mads Toftum
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:23:48AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I am +1 for dumping Forrest. I never grok why something so simple as > our static website needs something so complicated to build it. > I think you've nailed the difference between the forrest crowd and the rest of us. I tota

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I am +1 for dumping Forrest. I never grok why something so simple as our static website needs something so complicated to build it. Forrest does do some things for us, such as generating what I do consider to be a somewhat nicer looking si

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Dec 27, 2005, at 9:14 PM, David Crossley wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Thomas Dudziak wrote: since I'm rather new to this, I don't have a deep understanding of the problems you're tryi

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I am +1 for dumping Forrest. I never grok why something so simple as > our static website needs something so complicated to build it. Forrest does do some things for us, such as generating what I do consider to be a somewhat nicer looking site with collapsable menus a

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > Ross Gardler wrote: > > Because the ASF have to support the chosen tool and there are many > > different site generation tools in use within the ASF (now the > > Incubator is about to get its own). > I hope not. I hope we reuse what is simple and easy and already > w

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > In any event, there are a variety of ways forward. Alex, Ted, > > Serge and others appear to like the idea of a authentication > > restricted Confluence to use for generating HTML. > I think that we should have a neutral open format that ou

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Dec 27, 2005, at 9:14 PM, David Crossley wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Thomas Dudziak wrote: since I'm rather new to this, I don't have a deep understanding of the problems you're trying to solve. None is neede

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 29, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Tim Williams wrote: On 12/29/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 27, 2005, at 10:03 PM, David Crossley wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: Example: last apachecon, Geir was trying to update geronimo.html, it took 30+ mins before asking for h

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Ross Gardler
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Dec 27, 2005, at 9:14 PM, David Crossley wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Thomas Dudziak wrote: since I'm rather new to this, I don't have a deep understanding of the problems you're trying to solve. None is needed, the problem is very simple. The problems are n

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Tim Williams
On 12/29/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2005, at 10:03 PM, David Crossley wrote: > > > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > >> > >> Example: last apachecon, Geir was trying to update geronimo.html, it > >> took 30+ mins before asking for help. It took me 15+ minutes to > >> f

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 28, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: In any event, there are a variety of ways forward. Alex, Ted, Serge and others appear to like the idea of a authentication restricted Confluence to use for generating HTML. I think that we should have a neutral open format that our

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 27, 2005, at 9:14 PM, David Crossley wrote: Leo Simons wrote: Thomas Dudziak wrote: since I'm rather new to this, I don't have a deep understanding of the problems you're trying to solve. None is needed, the problem is very simple. The problems are not simple, or they would have

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 27, 2005, at 10:03 PM, David Crossley wrote: Davanum Srinivas wrote: Example: last apachecon, Geir was trying to update geronimo.html, it took 30+ mins before asking for help. It took me 15+ minutes to figure out that geronimo.html was not being linked from any page in the web site.

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
I am +1 for dumping Forrest. I never grok why something so simple as our static website needs something so complicated to build it. What's wrong with the xdoc/Anakia approach? If the problem is validation, that's trivial - we can easily create an dtd or xsd (if you don't want humans to be

RE: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
[Sorry for the delayed response ... spent a few days rebuilding my laptop.] David tried to get people interested in the issue, constructively, back in November. ref: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200511.mbox/%3c20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please review David's post from al

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-28 Thread Ross Gardler
David Crossley wrote: If people have issues with Forrest, then please take them to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. It is totally unfair to a new project to just criticise it from afar. We get very few emails to the user mailing list about any issues with Forrest. This seems to be especially t

[OT] Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-28 Thread Upayavira
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:03:34 +1100, "David Crossley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > > > Example: last apachecon, Geir was trying to update geronimo.html, it > > took 30+ mins before asking for help. It took me 15+ minutes to figure > > out that geronimo.html was not being

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread David Crossley
Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > Example: last apachecon, Geir was trying to update geronimo.html, it > took 30+ mins before asking for help. It took me 15+ minutes to figure > out that geronimo.html was not being linked from any page in the web > site. So we lost close to an hour of hackathon time try

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread David Crossley
Leo Simons wrote: > Thomas Dudziak wrote: > > since I'm rather new to this, I don't have a deep understanding of the > > problems you're trying to solve. > > None is needed, the problem is very simple. The problems are not simple, or they would have been solved years ago. Follow the site-dev disc

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread David Crossley
I am not trying to defend Forrest. We already acknowledge that there are some inadequacies for the situation where people do not want to learn and enhance the tool, and rather they just want to use it to generate some quick doco. Forrest is overkill for that. Why are people using it and then critic

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Leo Simons
/me hits himself on the head for not mentioning this earlier...but.. ...could we please move this thread to site-dev at apache dot org? The crossposts are no doubt annoying some people :-) On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:37:15AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On December 27, 2005 6:02:18 AM -0800

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On December 27, 2005 6:02:18 AM -0800 Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * anakia * the source xdoc format is not simple or clean enough * the validation step is not complete enough * the transformation is not predictable enough * managing navigational elements is not simple o

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 12/27/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Err, I would suggest you please go and read the [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives. > That's basically a "FAQ" at this point. You may also wish to go and look for > some posts by me over the last few years to the forrest mailing lists, or > to the avalo

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Thomas Dudziak wrote: > since I'm rather new to this, I don't have a deep understanding of the > problems you're trying to solve. None is needed, the problem is very simple. > However, to my naive understanding its two things: > > * make the process of d

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 12/27/05, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Example: last apachecon, Geir was trying to update geronimo.html, it > took 30+ mins before asking for help. It took me 15+ minutes to figure > out that geronimo.html was not being linked from any page in the web > site. So we lost close t

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Thomas, Example: last apachecon, Geir was trying to update geronimo.html, it took 30+ mins before asking for help. It took me 15+ minutes to figure out that geronimo.html was not being linked from any page in the web site. So we lost close to an hour of hackathon time trying to do something really

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/27/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > == Available tools == > > None of the other generally available tools satisfy all the above > requirements at the moment. How about just plain xml and xslt? Stick a build.xml in there, but people are free to use the xslt engine of their choice

Re: [RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 12/27/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It pains me to say this (Forrest is a cool project and I > consider at least some of its active developers and community > members my friends) but we've muddled around long enough. > > I think that, for the incubator website, Apache Forrest > >

[RT] Super Simple Site Generation Tool

2005-12-27 Thread Leo Simons
Hi gang, It pains me to say this (Forrest is a cool project and I consider at least some of its active developers and community members my friends) but we've muddled around long enough. I think that, for the incubator website, Apache Forrest * is too unstable as a codebase * is way too compl