Web based documentation

[Matthew Gillen]

Trac ( http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ ) is pretty cool, but it's
built around Subversion.  There is a simpiler CVS version (
http://www.cvstrac.org/ ) , but I have no experience with it.
--Matt

Cole Tuininga wrote:
> Hi all - 
> 
> I'm looking for some suggestions (general or specific) with regards to
> web based software system for doing documentation.  The short story is
> that we have an in-house web based software project that we want to
> finally provide documentation for.  The basic requirements/wishlist goes
> something like this:
> 
> * Must be configurable to require authentication to read it.  
>   - A plus: pluggable authentication so the current user database could
>             be used.
>   - A plus: If the requirement for authentication before hand could be
>             on a page by page basis.  In other words, some pages (or 
>             areas) would require it, others not.
> 
> * Must have separate permissions for reading/writing documentation.
>   - A plus: If this was on a page/area basis.
> 
> * CVS compatibility - If we're working on a big upgrade for the project
> that will involve lots of documentation changes, I'd like to be able to
> write the documentation before hand and deploy it at the same time we
> deploy the software updates.
> 
> * Web based - needs to support "normal" browsers.
> 
> We took a look at a couple wiki's, but I didn't find one that could help
> with the CVS compatibility issue.
> 
> Anybody have experiences or thoughts to share?  Thanks in advance!
>