For managing / pseudo-branching of document trees, check out:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Confluence+Console
We use it with great success.. its a bit of a kludge, but what are you
gonna do... :)
Cris
On 11/10/05, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
> 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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