good idea, +1 On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Jan Lehnardt <m...@jan.io> wrote:
> +1 > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > > On 18 Mar 2017, at 05:55, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'd like to propose dropping the PDF and texinfo targets from our > > documentation build, or at the very least, having them not be part of > > the default target / not standard deliverables for the project. > > > > We'd continue to build HTML documentation as part of the workflow, > > naturally, as well as the man pages. > > > > I don't have any solid numbers, but I'm fairly sure most people use > > https://docs.couchdb.org/ or a locally installed copy for their > > documentation for CouchDB rather than the PDF documentation. I > > personally can't remember the last time I opened the docs in PDF form. I > > also have never seen anyone refer to the PDF docs on the mailing lists, > > IRC or Slack when asking for advice or support. > > > > I've also never seen anyone use or talk about the texinfo target, and > > I've not used them myself. > > > > Dropping this dependency will allow us to drop TeX/LaTeX from our build > > chain, which speeds up build times by about 90 seconds and reduces the > > size of containers currently being built for our Jenkins CI workflow. > > It also means CouchDB devs don't have to install 0.5-1.5GB worth of > > toolset. > > > > I've captured this in JIRA as > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-3329 and have PRs ready > > to fire off if people agree. > > > > Your thoughts? > > > > -Joan >
