+1 for Publican website (you've convinced me!)

Now, who will set up such a website? Do we need to file a ticket with the
infrastructure team? Can it be done in time for 4.0 release?

And can we also place any other HTML there, such as our 400+ pages of API
Reference which isn't generated by Publican?

Jessica T.
CloudStack Tech Pubs


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 2:44 AM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Revived - Re: [WEBSITE][DOCS] Publican-based docs publishing?
>
> +1 for Publican based docs website
>
>
> On Sep 5, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Noticed that docs.cloudstack.org is down at the moment, which reminded
> > me that we haven't come to a conclusion on this topic.
> >
> > The options before us are:
> >
> > - A Publican-generated site from the CloudStack documentation.
> > - A docs.cloudstack.org site powered by MindTouch wiki.
> >
> > The previous discussion is easily skimmable here:
> >
> > http://markmail.org/thread/j57gbt5g4vtbk2iw
> >
> > My opinion is that we should go with the Publican-generated site. It's
> > much less maintenance and can easily be hosted on Apache infrastructure.
> > But, please do look over the earlier thread and if you have an
> > interest in participating in CloudStack docs - please do speak up with
> > a preference.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012, at 02:46 PM, David Nalley wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> Wanted to toss this out there and get some reaction.
> >>
> >> We use Publican to transform our documentation XML into consumable
> >> formats like HTML, EPUB, PDF, etc.
> >> Publican has a number of other functions, and one of those is
> >> publishing a documentation website. I've participated in this with
> >> other projects, and it seems to be relatively easy. (it's literally
> >> two commands to build and publish a document) So I started playing
> >> with this today - and you can take a look at my VERY UNPOLISHED
> >> results. I only spent a few hours on this today, so there is still
> >> plenty that needs to happen for this to look presentable, but please
> >> have a look.
> >>
> >> http://people.apache.org/~ke4qqq/docs
> >>
> >> A couple of things I'll point out. The interface is completely
> >> localized in scores of languages - and it will automagically load to
> >> match your browsers locale provided there are docs in that language.
> >> To date though we only have zh_CN, and only for a single document.
> >> You can also manually set your language.
> >> The TOC on the left is divided by 'product' [1], then by version [2],
> >> and then document. I will note that you are presented with all of the
> >> formats that the document was built for (so you'll see HTML,
> >> HTML-Single, PDF and EPUB and the latter two options are download
> >> links for the docs.) And that permits you to load your content pretty
> >> easily.
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] I'd imagine we'd generally only have a single product - Apache
> >> CloudStack, but perhaps there will be others, like Apache CloudStack
> >> Contributor Documentation which is separate from user documentation
> >> [2] Selecting a version shows you all available documents for that
> >> version in your language of choice
> >>
> >> What do folks think of presenting our 'official documentation' in
> >> this manner? Is it something worth pursuing? I was thinking having
> >> this be a docs/ subdirectory on the project site (e.g.
> >> incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/docs, is there a better place for it?
> >>
> >> Thoughts, comments, or flames are welcome.
> >>
> >> --David
> >
> > --
> > Joe Brockmeier
> > j...@zonker.net
> > Twitter: @jzb
> > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
>
>

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