Revamping the Packaging Guide

[Nigel Babu]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Daniel Holbach
<daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> At UDS we talked about "Revamping the Packaging Guide" and figured out a
> plan ([1], [2]) that we feel is realistic and allows us to fix and
> update the Packaging Guide over time.
>
> The main problems we want to solve are:
>  - move away from unmaintainable wiki guides
>  - provide an easy way to translate the guides (using LP infrastructure)
>  - provide an easy way to file bugs on the guides
>  - provide online and offline (.html, .pdf, epub?) guides
>  - provide raw text guides in /usr/share/doc
> </snip>


Hello folks,

After seeing the output generated by Sphinx and ease of dealing with the
formating, I'd vote for Sphinx at the moment.  It seems much easier to
contribute and I'd be willing to help out in finishing writing the guide.

Regards
Nigel
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