Thanks for the pointer. It also prompted me to explore Confluence
SOAP API. Looks like we can automate quite a few things on our own.
Andrus
On Nov 10, 2005, at 8:37 PM, Cris Daniluk wrote:
> 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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