Chris Holmes ha scritto: > First off I apologize for not fully reading this thread, I've been on > vacation and there's just a pile of email waiting. If this question has > been resolved just point me at the relevant discussions. > > But _why_ are we reverting back to docbook? A few years ago we moved to > wiki to get _away_ from docbook. The thought was to lower the barrier > to entry for new contributors, just put all the docs on a wiki. And I > think this worked pretty well, we have far more content than we did before. > > I concede that without a solid maintainer it's spiraled a bit out of > control. But wiki lets you do pdf export and the like, so I'm not sure > I understand the advantages of docbook? And the disadvantages are clear > and proven for us, we get less documentation contributions when users > have to check out and commit on svn just to add a line or two to the docs. > > And I fully support more documention, and if Adrian is super motivated > and will only work in docbook, but will make nice, complete guides on > his own, that's fine. Just wanted to raise the fact that we tried > docbook before. It was a bitch to work with, we ended up having all > these files to automatically transform from docbook to html, ect. and it > ended up being too much overhead.
Ho hum, I don't know what the others think, I can give you just my motivations on why I provided my +1. First off, I keep on loosing my edits when I work with wiki. Edit, preview, back, forward, boom! And my edit is lost (ok, that's my fault, I'm too in a hurry when I write docs...). Second, I usually can't find anything on the confluence site. Even with Hibernate, that has a easier to work with documentation, I usually get the "one html page" documentation and then use a lot Firefox search capabilities. Thrid, wiki is not versioned along with the code, and I'd like it to be so. Go to: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Documentation Where's the documentation for Geoserver 1.0? And what version does the wiki refers to, trunk, latest released version? Now, usually in my projects I do write documentation in plain XHMTL following the advices found here: http://www.binarycloud.com/index.php/Contributor/WritingPackageDocumentation But since Adrian is the one that propels the new doc effort I just tried to verify we had tools to edit docbook without too much effort. Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
