On Friday 11 November 2005 13:56, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2005 12:27 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: > > [...] > > > > * The GHC user manual [currently generated using DocBook] > > I think it should continue to be written in DocBook. (It should > switch to DocBook XML if it's still using SGML DocBook.) XML > documents are "type-safe" in contrast to LaTeX documents, for > example. XML is well supported. DocBook stresses logical markup and > allows very specific markup and therefore supports conversion into > different formats (HTML, PDF, ...) very well. Again, what do others > think?
Yes. In fact I like the current GHC manual as it is. > > How would we make sure it stayed organised? And avoid > > getting screwed up by malicious folk? > > At Wikipedia, you can log in and modify content and you can modify > content while not being logged in. In the first case, the history > mentions your username, in the second case, it mentions your IP > address. I think, MediaWiki can be configured so that only logged-in > users are able to do modifications. As far as I can remember, I once > saw a site using MediaWiki, which didn't allow modifications from > non-registered users. > > But honestly, would we need to protect ourselfs from malicious folk? > At Wikipedia, they have problem with malicious people at a couple of > articles, so they sometimes have to lock articles. (This tells us > that article locking obviously is another feature of WikiMedia. As > far as I know, this kind of locking can be done by different persons, > not just one super user.) But who would want to screw up pages about > Haskell? Spambots are the worst problem, I guess. Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
