Development News

The manager has a new look and feel, thanks to last fall's intro to HCI Team, John (Cole) Jitkoff, Laura Treichler, Kayre Hylton, and Michele Clarke, and Saagar Patel (who implemented it). Take a look and let me know if you have any comments. I hope to get a new version up that uses this very soon -- it's just about stable.

I've discovered Blikis. And, Confluence, a comparatively good wiki. I've seen a bunch of them for other servers, but I've tended to prefer JSP since this project is already a JSP/J2EE project, so it's easier to maintain only one server technology.

We now have several test wikis up. See Confluence for more information.

I hope to expand this site and reduce the documentation on the previous website and make this the dominant one, so that we will more easily be able to have Developers edit the documentation pages and comment on them.

For one, the comments are a helpful area just like they are on the MySQL pages. And second, I believe that our user base as a whole will be better for fixing and improving documentation than an individual maintainer.