[forge-dev] [Help Requested] Documentation updates

Lincoln Baxter, III lincolnbaxter at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 15:28:07 EST 2012


Awesome! This is great! I fully support this :)

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Rodney Russ <rruss at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> ----- "Ivan St. Ivanov" <ivan.st.ivanov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: "Ivan St. Ivanov" <ivan.st.ivanov at gmail.com>
> > To: "forge-dev List" <forge-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:08:16 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada
> Mountain
> > Subject: Re: [forge-dev] [Help Requested] Documentation updates
> >
> > Hi Lincoln, folks,
> >
> >
> > I'd just like to outline what I would expect as Forge documentation.
> >
> >
> > I think we need two kinds of guides (think of a 'guide' in the
> > broadest possible sense). We need users and developers guide.
> >
> >
> > In the users guide I would look for two things: guide for the most
> > popular plugins (something like this:
> > https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/FORGE/Arquillian+Testing ). And
> > then we need a walkthrough for the common usecases (Java EE
> > application with JSF, OSGi application, Forge plugin, etc.). Something
> > like this:
> >
> https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/FORGE/Generating+a+basic+Java+EE+web-application
> > .
> >
> >
> > Of course video sessions are even better :-)
> >
> >
> > The next part is the dev guides. We have some great pages in our wiki
> > (the children of
> > https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/FORGE/Developing+a+Plugin ), but
> > some pictures would be very helpful. What I mean is something that
> > would present the structure of the APIs: for what do you use the
> > shell, the environment, the configuration, the different facets and
> > all the other important objects in the tool core. I say again, the
> > above page and its children are great, but a "big picture" would make
> > them even better.
> >
> >
> > Having said that, I can for sure contribute with manuals and guides.
> > However, I'm not a native speaker, so I would need a review of what I
> > wrote...
>
> I would be more than happy to review your work, Ivan.
>
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ivan
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Lincoln Baxter, III <
> > lincolnbaxter at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone :)
> >
> > We're coming up on the CR1 release of Forge, and we'd like to get some
> > of the documentation updated so that using Forge and writing Forge
> > plugins is easier than ever! This means that we need help creating
> > some new pages in the Forge Documentation
> >
> > If you could spend a little time:
> >
> >     • Identifying what information is missing
> >     • Creating or editing pages to bring this information up to date
> >
> >
> >
> > Just email the list with what you think needs to be included or
> > updated, and we'll figure out the best place for you to put it!
> >
> > Thank you for your help!
> > --
> > Lincoln Baxter, III
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> >
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