Reorganize MOTU team documentation?

Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.ledkov at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 10:22:02 GMT 2010


On 2 March 2010 09:01, Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 02.03.2010 00:01, Emmet Hikory wrote:
>> 4) The majority of our fellow developers are probably not familiar
>> with mallard.  While they can learn how to use it, it seems
>> unfortunate to make this change at the same time we are making other
>> changes that require developers to update their understanding:
>> frequent change of the way in which things are done has often been
>> cited in the past as a reason for developers to cease contributions.
>
> Before we decide to do this it might make sense to talk to people who
> did this work in DocBook before and how many people enjoyed contributing
> there.
>
> I don't mean to be too negative and am happy about every attempt to
> spruce up our documentation, but I have some reservations about the ease
> of doing drive-by fixes or writing a new article.
>
> Have a great day,
>  Daniel

I have worked a little bit on improving user documentation using
DocBook and Mallard. Mallard is not your typical docbook nightmare.
It's very lightweight and for me was easier than wiki markup ;-)

Although I would also suggest RESTructured text ala python documentation ;-)



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