assistance with Forrest

[David Crossley]

The purposes of this email are to remind people
about some of the useful facilities of Forrest,
and also alert them to discussion about the status
and future directions of Forrest, and to appeal for
people to assist Forrest.

I intend to send this to all of the ASF projects
that manage their websites with Forrest.
See my home directory at p.a.o which has a tool
to find them. There are about 55 websites, managed
by about 16 Top Level Projects.

It is also useful for developers who manage any
website with Forrest.

Later when we are more clear about our direction
we can send something similar to our user mail list.

--- oOo ---

These are useful facilities to assist with developing
and managing a Forrest solution for your project's website.

"How to deploy documentation with the Forrestbot
svn workstage"
This explains how the Forrest project manages our
own documentation.
http://forrest.apache.org/howto-forrestbot-svn.html

"Generate an ASF mirrors page using interactive web form"
http://forrest.apache.org/docs/dev/howto/howto-asf-mirror.html

"ForrestBar - Firefox toolbar to ease navigation
and search of Forrest resources"
http://forrest.apache.org/tools/forrestbar.html

"How to do development with Apache Forrest"
http://forrest.apache.org/howto-dev.html

"Frequently Asked Questions"
http://forrest.apache.org/faq.html

"The Anakia output plugin"
This was developed to assist the old Incubator
website to stop using Forrest and export all content
to an Anakia "xdoc" format. From there it could used
by an Anakia-based build system, or be further transformed.
http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.Anakia/

As usual, if you need further assistance with anything
then please ask on the Forrest mail lists.

--- oOo ---

There is discussion currently underway on the Forrest
dev mail list about the current status and future
direction of Forrest.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/27325

If anyone can assist Forrest, in any capacity, then
please do.

-David

[Ross Gardler-4]

Well done David

Ross

Sent from my mobile device.

On 8 Oct 2009, at 08:50, David Crossley <crossley@...> wrote:

> The purposes of this email are to remind people
> about some of the useful facilities of Forrest,
> and also alert them to discussion about the status
> and future directions of Forrest, and to appeal for
> people to assist Forrest.
>
> I intend to send this to all of the ASF projects
> that manage their websites with Forrest.
> See my home directory at p.a.o which has a tool
> to find them. There are about 55 websites, managed
> by about 16 Top Level Projects.
>
> It is also useful for developers who manage any
> website with Forrest.
>
> Later when we are more clear about our direction
> we can send something similar to our user mail list.
>
> --- oOo ---
>
> These are useful facilities to assist with developing
> and managing a Forrest solution for your project's website.
>
> "How to deploy documentation with the Forrestbot
> svn workstage"
> This explains how the Forrest project manages our
> own documentation.
> http://forrest.apache.org/howto-forrestbot-svn.html
>
> "Generate an ASF mirrors page using interactive web form"
> http://forrest.apache.org/docs/dev/howto/howto-asf-mirror.html
>
> "ForrestBar - Firefox toolbar to ease navigation
> and search of Forrest resources"
> http://forrest.apache.org/tools/forrestbar.html
>
> "How to do development with Apache Forrest"
> http://forrest.apache.org/howto-dev.html
>
> "Frequently Asked Questions"
> http://forrest.apache.org/faq.html
>
> "The Anakia output plugin"
> This was developed to assist the old Incubator
> website to stop using Forrest and export all content
> to an Anakia "xdoc" format. From there it could used
> by an Anakia-based build system, or be further transformed.
> http://forrest.apache.org/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.Anakia/
>
> As usual, if you need further assistance with anything
> then please ask on the Forrest mail lists.
>
> --- oOo ---
>
> There is discussion currently underway on the Forrest
> dev mail list about the current status and future
> direction of Forrest.
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel/27325
>
> If anyone can assist Forrest, in any capacity, then
> please do.
>
> -David

[David Crossley]

On Oct 08, 2009 David Crossley wrote:
>
> I intend to send this to all of the ASF projects
> that manage their websites with Forrest.
> See my home directory at p.a.o which has a tool
> to find them. There are about 55 websites, managed
> by about 16 Top Level Projects.

Okay, i sent those messages out today.

I did try to encourage people to come to our mail lists
for any followup, and the Subject intentionally has
a double-meaning.

So i am hoping that we will see more activity here.

Subject: assistance with Apache Forrest

dev AT beehive
dev AT cocoon
derby-dev AT db
ddlutils-dev AT db
general AT gump
general AT hadoop
hivemind  (Now in Attic so not sent.)
droids-dev AT incubator
imperius-dev AT incubator
pdfbox-dev AT incubator
general AT lucene
security-dev AT xml
tapestry (Only for old Tapestry4.0 so not sent.)
general AT ws
general AT xerces
general AT xml
commons-dev AT xml
xindice-dev AT xml
dev AT xmlbeans
general AT xmlgraphics

-David