On Fri, January 5, 2007 10:13 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > In hindsight, probably just doing the work in a wiki probably would have > been best (other than the fact that original wiki, I think, was turned > off). Because a wiki makes it easier and quicker for a larger community to > contribute back. At least that is what I am hoping ...
To run with that thought... I had suggested probably 2 years ago we use a wiki instead of docbook, and while the idea was shot down then, I'm thinking that wikis are common enough now that it's becoming just as capable a tool. The hassle of both understanding docbook/SGML and having the extensive toolchain working on a DragonFly system has worked out so that there's been almost no updates to the Handbook. It's significantly more complex to maintain than a wiki with no immediate benefit at this point, in my opinion. > A collaborative, short-term open source authoring project to quickly write > a book covering the basics from the 2005 BSDA Certification Requirements > Document was recently started. The BSD Certification Group's BSDA (BSD > Associate) Certification is for BSD Unix system administrators with light > to moderate skills. Is this suitable for a Handbook replacement? Is the wiki going to be maintained/reused past the publishing date of the book?
