I did some preliminary evaluation of the CMS products that we
discussed here. I don't see a clear winner yet and will keep looking.
One thing I discovered is that Confluence 2.0 is indeed much better
that 1.3 that we are using now. I am planning to do an upgrade soon,
so that we can poke around and learn the new features. I still need
to resolve a few issues with Atlassian though. Namely they seem to
have a 200 registered users limit for our license; we already
exceeded this number. But there is also a few things that look like
bugs in 2.0RC2.
I am still not convinced that we can use Confluence for the main site
without some major programming, but I think we should consider
migrating our docs building to it. I guarantee that Modeler Guide
will progress much faster if we put it on Wiki!
Confluence supports export of page sub-trees to HTML or PDF, so
theoretically we can write an Ant script that builds release
documentation from the live site. One thing I haven't figured out yet
is how to make a copy of a page subtree to branch a version (so that
we can maintain documentation for different releases independently),
but we have direct access to the DB after all, if worse comes to
worse we can do it via SQL.
Oh, and now that I am running Confluence on Tomcat/PostgreSQL on the
same machine as PHP/MySQL CMS's - the difference in performance is
stunning... and it is not in favor of LAMP...
Andrus
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