Re: [Springframework-developer] Confluence & Docs (was: Wiki)

[Mike Cannon-B. <mi...@at...>]

> You mentioned something about creating spaces; I assume only Spring
> Confluence administrators can do something like that...

I think I set it up so that anyone in the jira-developers group can 
create new spaces, seemed liberal enough?

People in confluence-administrators = jira-administrators = Confluence 
Admins can change this in the Global Permissions section :)

> Then something else. What's the plan with the reference documentation? 
> I'd
> like to keep something like a PDF in place, since a lot of people like 
> to
> have something offline. When we've got everything in confluence, I 
> don't
> think moving it to dockbook again makes sense; that is, if a reasonable
> export to PDF is possible that resembles a bit...
>
> Any opinions?

Well, you can export a PDF from Confluence if you want - but the 
rendering isn't perfect yet (FOP is a messy beast). The other 
alternative is to export a space as an HTML 'web' (looks exactly as you 
see online) then use Acrobat offline to create a PDF whenever you make 
a release (Acrobat generated PDFs from HTML still look the best I think 
personally).

You may also want to look at what the codehaus guys are doing with the 
remote APIs (XML-RPC and SOAP) to use Confluence to automate their 
website management (it's quite trippy - not really an intended use but 
actually works quite well).

Mike