Hi Thiago, It may behoove us to make sub-pages in those two reference columns (https://www.iotivity.org/documentation & https://www.iotivity.org/get-involved) for each release. We can place the current stuff that is located there now under some X release version link (whatever/however we referred to the version that is currently document at those two links). Then we can take snapshots of the Wiki with its respective release and place that documentation above the aforemention "X release version" above.
This may be the easiest, and least amount of compromise by all. Thanks, Joey -----Original Message----- From: Macieira, Thiago Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:54 PM To: Morrow, Joseph L Cc: iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org Subject: Re: [dev] IoTivity 'Getting-Started' Guides On Thursday 25 June 2015 14:46:32 Morrow, Joseph L wrote: > Hi Thiago, > > I would **like** to see the website redesigned so that community can > grow and change as it needs by singularly using the Wiki. Once a major > release (ie. "1.0.0") is made, it may behoove us to document these > things on the main page. However, until then, any work up to that > point should likely only exist on the Wiki. Hi Joey I agree with what you said. We can treat the wiki as a place to draft content for the main website. > With this website locked down and not necessarily matching what the > wiki has up, this makes the IoTivity project look seriously > disorganized. This may also create issues for end users who put time > into practicing the wrong documentation. It's a real scenario where an > end user may simply walk away from IoTivity due to frustration. All > contribution work (including all steps up to actually contributing) > can change & will change. This model where any developer who make a > slight change must contact one of a handful of people to broadcast > their changes is not scalable, and isn't even working currently. > > Please re-consider the avoidance of re-designing. Perhaps we can add a > new column "Wiki" and we can provide some quick links that people whom > are absolutely brand new should look at first. Also, as said above, > any concrete documentation for a major release could certainly exist > on the main page of Iotivity. I don't have the technical skills to redesign. I can at most edit text that is on the main website. In any case, those pages don't actually contain content. They only contain links to other pages. I can easily change the links to point to the wiki. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
