I did a quick proof of concept to see how it would work to migrate it from docbook to rst. The results are on my github [1]. It only took a few minutes to figure out how to migrate the content. I can work on getting the navigation working too if people like this.
If decide we want to do RST. I think we should follow the same style as what opsschool [3, 4] did. They use sphinx [2] to manage the conversion to html/pdfs and it looks really good. [1] https://github.com/blkperl/ubuntu-serverguide [2] http://sphinx-doc.org/ [3] https://github.com/opsschool/curriculum [4] http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/ ~blkperl On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Peter Matulis <peter.matu...@canonical.com>wrote: > On 12/12/2013 04:03 PM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Peter Matulis > > <peter.matu...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> This is mentioned at every UDS but no one ever steps up to do anything > >> so we remain with XML. > > > > What's involved with this? > > 1. Ensuring the underlying source can yield HTML and PDF documents. > > 2. Convert *all* XML to the new format and then convert *all* of the > latter to HTML *and* PDF and make sure *everything* looks right. > > 3. The toolchain needs to be understandable by mortals. > > (a) Will we lose "linkend" attributes? That is, the ability to do: > > <para> > If you are going to use LDAP to store Samba users you will need to > configure the Samba > server to authenticate using LDAP. See <xref linkend="samba-ldap"/> for > details. > </para> > > I'm not sure how these kinds of source links will end up after > converting from XML to markdown. > > (b) There may very well be other things we need to think about. I'm not > an XML expert. > > > Sections 10 through 14 need to be rewritten for Juju usage. > > I don't see why not as long as i) we can achieve the same results in > terms of an actual installation and ii) do not leave people scratching > their heads. I'm alluding to the fact that performing manual steps is > part of learning the software's architecture and, in turn, is invaluable > in how to maintain/administer the installation. Since Juju replaces the > manual steps the text would need to replace them with corresponding > explanation. > > ~pmatulis > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- Thanks, William
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