Re: documentation for novice and newbies
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:32:24PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 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 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?
Just a note from a debian translator :
Wikis are not generally very friendly in managing translations and
content-negociation, and even less in tracking the freshness of
translations.
Is there some po-vcs-based wiki available ?
Regards,
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Simon Paillard
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