Best wiki engines or tools for wiki-to-docbook conversions?

Dougie Richardson dougierichardson at ubuntu.com
Tue May 5 23:23:26 UTC 2009


Hi Richard,

2009/5/5 Richard JOHNSON <nixternal at ubuntu.com>:
> Honestly, you want to make it easy for people to contribute without having
> to learn DocBook, rST is it, and you saw the presentation put on by the
> Python people this past weekend. As long as you don't hear "well don't
> subject your possible contributors to any kind of markup." If you hear
> that, then just accept plain text or even ODF files and manually convert
> later. rST has super easy markup, if that is what you want to call it, and
> converting it to DocBook or any other format is pretty good.

I'm increasingly of the mind set that expanding the number of people
working with DocBook and encouraging plain text submission is the
easiest route to simplifying contribution.

Regards,

Dougie Richardson
http://www.lynxworks.eu/
dougierichardson at ubuntu.com




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