Right well basically what I am saying is that instead of forking at a specific point in
time, which is really what option 2 is about, we just fork when it really becomes
necessary, which is likely a major re-architecture.
While it does sound like I am advocating 1, 3 could meet this as well. We can have one
link for “WildFly docs” which is always the most current, and if we were using asciidoc,
we could have “archived docs”, which are not maintained but there for reference if need
be.
On May 13, 2016, at 12:57 PM, James Perkins
<jperkins(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Yes I agree on both counts that we fork too often and we're likely to update new
documentation only. This kind of goes with my first option where we keep it more generic
e.g. use WildFly rather than WildFly ${version}.
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Jason T. Greene <jason.greene(a)redhat.com
<mailto:jason.greene@redhat.com>> wrote:
Also, I think it's far more likely developers will update the current documentation
than fix old docs. By having a living doc for all versions you ensure that users always
have the most accurate information at their disposal.
On May 13, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Jason T. Greene <jason.greene(a)redhat.com
<mailto:jason.greene@redhat.com>> wrote:
> Just as a general note, no matter how we generate our documentation we can always
qualify versions. For example we can say "Since version X.y, blah".
>
> In general software tends to be additive until you hit a major rearchitecture.
Currently I think we are forking the documentation too much.
>
> On May 12, 2016, at 10:33 PM, James Perkins <jperkins(a)redhat.com
<mailto:jperkins@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>> I've been reading the WildFly documentation [1] quite a bit lately and
noticing a lot of issues. Sometimes it references WildFly 8 in the WildFly 10 (or 9)
documentation. Sometimes it references JBoss AS 7. Links take you to old documentation,
e.g. a WFLY10 doc takes you to a page for WFLY8. Sometimes documentation is just plain out
of date referencing behavior that has possibly been removed or replaced by something
better.
>>
>> This has happened because we keep copying the documentation over each time we
have a new version. Overall this makes sense as a lot of it doesn't need to be
changed. However it leaves reading the documentation confusing. Reading documentation for
WildFly 10 and seeing WildFly 8 in the text with a link for AS72 isn't very user
friendly as I'm sure we can all agree.
>>
>> There's a few different ways we could go with this.
>>
>> Approach 1:
>> One, probably the easiest, is to use a single confluence project. We'd need
to remove the version numbers from the text, which I think we should do anyway. Instead of
referencing WildFly 10 we just reference it as WildFly.
>>
>> An issue I can think of with this approach is some how annotating or referencing
that parts of the documentation only work with ${version}. For example new features would
have to be noted they only work with ${version}+.
>>
>>
>> Approach 2:
>> Essentially he same as approach 1 only do allow different Confluence projects for
the different Java EE target version. So WIldFly 8, 9 and 10 would all be documented under
something like WFLYEE7.
>>
>> Approach 3
>> Switch to using something like asciidoc which can use variables and generate
links to the correct content. While this approach is probably takes the most work up
front, it seems like like it would be easier to maintain between releases.
>>
>> Any other suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> [1]:
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY10/Documentation
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