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Re: Review request: plan for doc changes arising from asadmin changes

From: Sankar Neelakandan <Sankar.Neelakandan_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:19:23 -0700

Hi Paul,
    The plan of changes looks good, except the --help option. I feel
that intuitively users will try asadmin <subcommand> --help instead of
asadmin --help <subcommand>.
What do others think ?.

thanks
Sankar

Paul Davies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review the GlassFish v3 Administration CLI Documentation Plan
> <http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=GlassFishV3AdminCLIDocPlan>.
> This plan specifies all the required documentation changes that arise
> from the changes to the Administration CLI for GlassFish v3,
> specifically the separation of metaoptions from subcommand options in
> the asadmin utility.
>
> Attached to the plan is a sample changed man page (PDF)
> <http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/attach/GlassFishV3AdminCLIDocPlan/create-javamail-resource.1.pdf>.
> This sample illustrates how the man pages will appear after the
> changes to man pages described in the plan are implemented. Please
> review this sample in conjunction with the plan.
>
> Mandatory reviewers are as follows:
>
> * Kedar Mhaswade
> * Bill Shannon
> * Sankar Neelakandan
>
> Please give me your feedback on the plan and the sample by the end of
> the day this *Friday, 17 July , 2009*. If you need more time, please
> let me know. If I do not hear back from you by then, I will assume
> that the plan and the sample are acceptable and that work can proceed
> on making the changes in the documentation.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Paul Davies, Senior Technical Writer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> http://blogs.sun.com/techscribe/