Re: Developments in the review cycle

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

I think we're planning to migrate to Bitbucket, which I believe can do
the same thing.

Switching from XHTML source in Confluence to Markdown in files seems
like rolling back the clock five years, unless there's a wiki that
uses Markdown source. And even then, Prince is way more expensive than
Scroll PDF Exporter.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> We're using a private GitHub repo, which is a sub-tree of a public repo. You
> might want to check it out, actually:
> https://github.com/ripple/ripple-dev-portal
>
> My co-worker is a pretty brilliant developer who created a tool that parses
> Markdown into HTML and PDF (through Prince), so we can single-source from
> those repos with different targets defined in a .yml config file. The PDF
> part is what's allowing us to move away from Confluence.
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Is that just basic Git or are you using Bitbucket or GitHub?
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>> > We've started using pull requests in Git for our reviews (our source is
>> > Markdown). Like Confluence, everyone can see each other's comments and
>> > you
>> > can have a conversation thread. It works especially well for revisions
>> > because you can see exactly what changed. It hasn't been that long, but
>> > I've begun to prefer it to Confluence because it limits comments to the
>> > review period. ...
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