Documentation; GO!

[Paulo Ribeiro]

Hello again,

Over the weekend I managed to install the DocBookWiki application on a 
Ubuntu Server 10.04 machine, but unfortunately I couldn't get the 
application to work. I suspect that DocBookWiki is no longer compatible 
either with phpWebApp, which is one of the dependencies, or with PHP 5.

Furthermore, the project isn't actively maintained for at least 4 years 
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=b321594e0803040804l3807d216jfe00ae936f927206%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=doc-book-users), 
which limits the option of asking for support.

Interestingly, I found an old blog post by Mark Shuttleworth where he 
poses the same requirements as the Xubuntu Documentation project:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/59

There are many suggestions of tools to do the job in the comments, 
including the built-in DocBook support of MoinMoin, which sounds promising.

Perhaps someone is already familiarized with one of the suggested tools 
and could give any advice about using them in the Documentation project?

-- 
Paulo Ribeiro

On 12.Aug.02 21:21, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Paulo Ribeiro <paulo at diffraction.pt> wrote:
>> I did a quick search and found a wiki application that allows displaying and
>> editing DocBook documents online:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/doc-book/
>>
>> I can check if this is a viable solution as soon as I have the time,
>
> Oh, very cool! Thanks for taking the time to look into this, looking
> forward to seeing what you find.
>
>> or we
>> could search for other similar tools that would allow us to work
>> collaboratively directly over DocBook...
>
> The goal at this stage is really making the docs easy to collaborate
> on (manually editing docbook files isn't easy), but if we actually
> could keep it all in docbook through the whole process, while keeping
> it easy for people, that'd be fantastic.
>