Joshua,
That sounds good. But could be some duplication.
regards,Deepak
On Friday, April 24, 2020, 04:17:07 p.m. UTC, Joshua McKenzie
<jmcken...@apache.org> wrote:
To clarify intent Deepak, we're only talking about donating the Apache
Cassandra portion of the documentation, nothing else. There is no
intention whatsoever for anything DataStax branded or related to merge into
the in-tree project documentation.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:33 AM Deepak Vohra <dvohr...@yahoo.com.invalid>
wrote:
>
> While the DataStax documentation could supplement the Apache Cassandra
> documentation, DataStax is a commercial product based on open source Apache
> Cassandra with enhancements made to the open source Cassandra. Moreover,
> DataStax documentation requires to be maintained and updated and as it is
> the documentation has not been updated to version 4.0.
> thanks,Deepak On Friday, April 24, 2020, 03:11:26 p.m. UTC, Joshua
> McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> A few of us have the opportunity to offer a large portion of documentation
> to the apache foundation and specifically the Apache Cassandra project as
> well as dedicate a good portion of time to maintaining this going forward.
> For those of you familiar, this is the DataStax sponsored / authored
> Cassandra documentation people often refer to in the community. Links can
> be found here
> <https://docs.datastax.com/en/landing_page/doc/landing_page/cassandra.html
> >.
>
> I've spoken with some of the doc writers and there's going to be
> significant work involved to go from the doc writing system these are
> authored in to Sphinx, or some other doc authoring system if we as a
> project decide to switch things. I know Jon Haddad has some opinions here
> and I think that'd be a great conversation to have on this thread for those
> interested. A couple of people in the near future are going to have the
> opportunity to continue working on these docs full-time in the in-tree
> docs, so maintenance going forward should represent little disruption to
> the project's workings day-to-day.
>
> Looking for feedback on:
>
> 1.
>
> Are there any questions or concerns about this donation?
> 2.
>
> Any thoughts on documentation system to use long-term, since a donation
> of this size would be a reasonable time to consider switching to
> something
> more preferable (not advocating for the system these current docs are in
> to
> be clear - poking Haddad to speak up since he has a strong PoV here ;) )
> 3.
>
> What are next steps?
>
>
> I'm genuinely excited about this; here's to hoping everyone else is too!
>
>
> ~Josh
>
