Re: documentation for novice and newbies
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:05:27 -0500
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:46:47AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:16:58AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > > If we went with a non-wiki format then we need a home.
> >
> > A home on which to develop? or a home on which to publish?
> > With a distributed revision control system, any site is, at least
> > formally, the equal of any other -- no specific home is needed.
> > With a wiki, the wiki site *is* home, with all the attendant
> > uncertainty of what to do if the wiki goes defunct.
> >
> > We *do* need a site to point readers to, though, whether a wiki
> > or some other.
> >
>
> If we get a good document set up, I think that debian-doc or -www will
> put up a link, wherever it is housed (homed?) for publishing.
>
> If the wiki page was one long page with chapters for each of our areas
> of interest, we can wget and store the html that makes the document.
> That way if the wiki goes defunct we still have the document, with its
> licence statement, to put somewhere else.
We could start a project on alioth. We can setup a repository,
mailinglist, and also webpages (wiki or not).
Regards,
Andrei
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