David E. Jones sent the following on 7/5/2006 4:21 PM:
>
> We're migrating the content from the Undersun doc site to the
> docs.ofbiz.org Confluence server. There are some examples from the few
> hours I spent doing the PoC work on this that are basically all of the
> docs currently in the end-user documentation space.
>
> You might want to start by learning about Confluence and the wiki markup
> they use (though you can do much through their visual editor). We're
> basically taking the HTML from the existing site and converting it to
> that markup, plus reformatting a bit to clean it up (though that is a
> secondary priority).
>
> There is more information in the intro page in the end-user doc space.
> You should add comments to that page for any section you work on.
>
> -David
>
>
> BJ Freeman wrote:
>> great, Now before I mess things up, just what am I doing.
>> ;)
>>
>> David E. Jones sent the following on 7/5/2006 11:58 AM:
>>>
>>> BJ,
>>>
>>> I have added access permissions for your user on the Undersun doc
>>> site. Your username for the account I found in there is
>>> "
[hidden email]" and you password is as it was before, or you
>>> can request a new one from the login page.
>>>
>>> For now please add new pages to the OFBiz wiki space and then
>>> existing editors can review them and move them to the end-user doc
>>> space.
>>>
>>> -David
>>>
>>>
>>> BJ Freeman wrote:
>>>> David I have not volunteered due to my poor grammar. as you can tell
>>>> I can't write very well. Just a good programmers :)
>>>> However if it is just moving files and restructuring, I can give you
>>>> a couple hours a day.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> David E. Jones sent the following on 7/4/2006 8:19 AM:
>>>>>
>>>>> Rafiu,
>>>>>
>>>>> We aren't selling the online docs any more because we no longer
>>>>> have a technical writer working on them full time. We also aren't
>>>>> handing out accounts for free because we'd like some help moving
>>>>> the docs to the new server and editing and cleaning them up, so for
>>>>> right now the only way to get access to those docs (if you don't
>>>>> already have a paid account) is to volunteer to help migrate the
>>>>> content.
>>>>>
>>>>> My hope is that this effort will be over ASAP and then the whole
>>>>> end-user documentation effort will be much more collaborative, and
>>>>> more freely available to OFBiz users and developers in general.
>>>>>
>>>>> -David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rafiu Fakunle wrote:
>>>>>> David E. Jones wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which end user docs are you referring to?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The ones from OpenSourceStrategies are, I believe, in the Word
>>>>>>> doc format but with OpenOffice could certainly be converted to odf.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The stuff from Undersun is still sitting in the online doc server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can I get access to that? IIRC that's the most comprehensive docs
>>>>>> set available for OFBiz.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I asked around for volunteers to move it to the Jira server at
>>>>>>> docs.ofbiz.org, and while a few people expressed interest nothing
>>>>>>> has gone into that yet.
>>>>>> My guess is it's because of the tedium of manually moving the
>>>>>> content across. Data entry is pretty much incredibly boring; worse
>>>>>> still, wheel reinvention. If the content is already there, then we
>>>>>> need to figure out how to move it over automagically rather than
>>>>>> doing copy-paste.
>>>>>>> It's there for the taking though!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cool. How do I access it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thx,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rafiu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -David
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rafiu Fakunle wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are the end user docs available somewhere in an open format
>>>>>>>> (odf/xml)?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thx,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rafiu.
>>>>>>