Re: doc directory of the web pages
In article <[🔎] 19981123005406.Z430@debian.org>, "James A. Treacy" <treacy@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 12:25:41AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>> Can you give us an abstract of what is to be in the 'doc'
>> directory? I assume we want basically what is there now, but more
>> of it.
>>
> What I am really asking is for the documentation people to tell us
> what should go in there. Someone on debian-www could spend a bunch
> of time going through all the stuff in the DDP and come up with
> something, but it makes more sense for the people who know the
> documentation to set up the framework.
Ok. Well, let me first give you the skinny. There are many issues in
play here.
The first question is, which DDP-managed documents are ready and
worthy for publication? Obviously there are some that are worthy but
not yet ready. I've made an effort recently to mark as orphaned/stale
the documents that are not being maintained. So I would prefer is
someone else went though and selected.
The second issue is structure. For DDP documents which are managed in
CVS, with debiandoc-sgml (which is about half, I'd guess, more to
come, I hope), it is quite easy to automatically (or manually, when
appropriate) check out the module ddp/manuals.sgml from
':ext:<user>@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-doc' and say 'make
PUBLISHDIR=whatever <manual>' and it will publish HTML to the right
area, within a subdirectory named <manual>, i.e., the HTML would be
<PUBLISHDIR>/<manual>/index.html (etc). Hopefully this works for you,
if not, we can fix it.
I would imagine that it might be of questionable value to
automatically (nightly, weekly) install the most up-to-date source
from CVS. I'm just not sure.
The final issue is that if we're going to do this, we might as well
propogate it into http://www.debian.org/devel/ as well, since many
manuals can go there also.
James, is this the kind of information you were looking for?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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