On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 10:21 +0000, sebb wrote:
> On 2 February 2018 at 17:41, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 17:05 +0000, sebb wrote:
> > > On 2 February 2018 at 13:33, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 20:18 +0000, sebb wrote:
> > > > > It may not be pretty, but I find it legible and generally
> > > > > easy to
> > > > > navigate so I hope those attributes won't be lost.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Also, it's important not to break any links.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > It is also important to eat healthy, be polite and stay away
> > > > from
> > > > those
> > > > girls.
> > > > 
> > > > I am sorry, Sebastian, but links are likely to get broken and
> > > > some
> > > 
> > > It's not necessary to change the site design.
> > > Nor is it necessary to drop Maven.
> > > 
> > 
> > Of course not, as long as some other poor sucker has to maintain
> > that
> > site.
> > 
> > > I think links are a lot more more important than looks.
> > > 
> > 
> > This is not so much about the look of the site being terrible
> > (which is
> > a consequence, not a cause) but about the way the site gets
> > generated
> > is terrible.
> 
> In what way is it terrible?

Being terribly broken makes it terrible, does it not? 

> And does that have anything to do with Markdown?

Like, better tools tend to use markdown.

> 
> > Have you ever wondered why there has been literally not a single
> > contribution to our web site from an external contributor?
> > 
> > Have you ever wondered why there have been only two substantial
> > contributions to our documentation in the past 10 years? I suspect
> > the
> > reason is the same.
> 
> There are lots of reasons why people don't contribute documentation.

Absolutely. But twisted and broken tooling that generates hideous
looking content does not really help, does it?

Oleg

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