Hi Jeremie and all, Back from holidays too :) Cool to see progress on this! Ok I've parsed this thread and here's my take: * JIRA: I'll create a dedicated JIRA project since the project seems large enough to warrant it * Documentation: our rule is currently to have pages on extensions.xwiki.org and if the project becomes too large to create a dedicated wiki for it, as we've done for rendering.xwiki.org, commons.xwiki.org, enterprise, etc for example (see http://contrib.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome). IMO it's ok ATM to have several pages on e.x.o for the MailArchive application and we can decide later on to move it to its own wiki (after we have a 1.0 released IMO). * Nexus: I'll create an account for you. Is that ok? Thanks -Vincent On Aug 10, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Jeremie BOUSQUET wrote:
So I'd say that:
- There should be some documentation on the extension page, at least a description of the project, some usage scenarios, some screenshots, and a list of the features - I agree that the full documentation should be included in the application itself - The same full documentation should also be available online, and the contrib wiki seems to be the right place (in a dedicated space)
I think it's the best solution. Since the space I currently use for the main pages of my app is "MailArchive", I would propose to use the same for the documentation space and put pages under: http://contrib.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/MailArchive/
That way publishing the doc online to contrib wiki would be straightforward with selective import.
Br, Jeremie
2012/8/9 Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]>:
On 08/09/2012 10:38 AM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
On 08/09/2012 04:34 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET wrote:
Humm ... Just thinking I might put that directly inside my app xar ... WDYT ?
I'm a big fan of self-documenting applications. It has the great advantage of always offering documentation matching the version in use.
But you might also want to offer the latest released version documentation online. I think there are some extensions that have documentation that spans several pages, but honestly I don't know if this is something we want/we agreed upon. I'll leave it to others to bring more information on this subject. There is the contrib wiki also which could be a candidate.
I've seen extensions with a lot of documentation on their extension page, and I've seen things documented in several places. Personally, I don't like huge extension pages.
So I'd say that:
- There should be some documentation on the extension page, at least a description of the project, some usage scenarios, some screenshots, and a list of the features - I agree that the full documentation should be included in the application itself - The same full documentation should also be available online, and the contrib wiki seems to be the right place (in a dedicated space)
2012/8/9 Jeremie BOUSQUET <[email protected]>:
Thanks Jerome,
Another thing about this project: I'd like to prepare things, and particularly the user guide part, so it's available when I'll publish the extension. For this particular use-case though, I'd like to extend the user/admin guide part on more than one page, as it may be quite large. Where should I put these pages ?
Thanks, Jeremie