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Re: documentation for novice and newbies



On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:24:47PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:58:11 -0500
> Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
 
> Concurrent versioning solves exactly that. You download a copy of the
> file, edit it locally and then upload the changed file. If the original
> file has changed the changes are merged if they don't conflict or you
> get a notice and you can solve the conflict manually.
> 
> > I _think_ that a wiki makes this a lot faster.  It allows us to
> > generate html.  However, it makes it difficult to break it up into
> > small documents and link them together again, and to make other
> > formats.
> 
> I think the wiki should be our primary focus, then use the content from
> the wiki to create other versions (html, plain text, ...) using cvs/svn
> whatever.
> 

You say that if we make a project in alioth we can have a wiki.  Does
alioth have its own wiki or how do we set this up?  Are there wiki
programs that automate dumping to docbook?

Doug.



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