This pull request adds the following retirement announcement to the README.
While the package still can be found useful, we decided to archive the project at the beginning of July 2023.
The main reason is that conflr will be superseded by Quarto. Quarto v1.3 gained the functionality to publish documents into Confluence (the official announcement. This looks promising. At the moment, there might be some missing features compared to conflr, but it should be just a matter of time before Quarto supersedes conflr in all aspects, considering it's one of Posit's flagship projects.
Another reason is that conflr has a technical debt; the primary target of conflr was the on-premise version of Confluence. The on-premise version will be sunset in Feb 2024, so conflr should also switch to the cloud version. However, since the on-premise version and the cloud version have different syntax and plugins, it's not easy to migrate. Considering we don't have much development bandwidth for this project, we conclude it's not really feasible to support the cloud version.
Thank you for all your support on conflr. While it's a bit sad to announce the retirement, we are very happy to see this great evolution in the documentation ecosystem!
This pull request adds the following retirement announcement to the README.
While the package still can be found useful, we decided to archive the project at the beginning of July 2023.
The main reason is that conflr will be superseded by Quarto. Quarto v1.3 gained the functionality to publish documents into Confluence (the official announcement. This looks promising. At the moment, there might be some missing features compared to conflr, but it should be just a matter of time before Quarto supersedes conflr in all aspects, considering it's one of Posit's flagship projects.
Another reason is that conflr has a technical debt; the primary target of conflr was the on-premise version of Confluence. The on-premise version will be sunset in Feb 2024, so conflr should also switch to the cloud version. However, since the on-premise version and the cloud version have different syntax and plugins, it's not easy to migrate. Considering we don't have much development bandwidth for this project, we conclude it's not really feasible to support the cloud version.
Thank you for all your support on conflr. While it's a bit sad to announce the retirement, we are very happy to see this great evolution in the documentation ecosystem!