[doc] Re: Documentation reccomendations

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

> Once we decide what to start with, then I think someone should start
> converting to (and, in reality, writing new) DocBook.  That might be me,
> if I continue to have time to work on Horde/IMP issues, or are there
> others interested?

Me.  I'm going to put Chora into the docs repository.  If you need
infrastructure help, I'll _definitely_ help you there as well (I'm pretty
familiar with the whole painful docbook/dsssl/xml/xsl pipeline).  Just
updating my laptop right now - going travelling for a month, so I'll need to
do this on the move, but at least I'll have the time from hotel rooms and
planes to actually do it ;-)

> (And I'd love to hear what others think about generating a flat text-file
> INSTALL file from DocBook, as one of the output types?)

Normally, this is done with a 'lynx -dump', and tweaking the output format
afterwards.  Hmm, I'm having a think about the whole structure at the moment
actually.

I'll take another look at the repository and lay out my thoughts properly in
another mail soon.

Anil



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Subject: Re: [doc] Re: Documentation reccomendations

Quoting "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@horde.org>:

> 
> That would be great!  Documentation writers and reviewers always
> appreciated.


well, i would probably be much more suited for review, but maybe writing as 
well :)  wehrever you want to start and can use me, let me know.  I 
painstakingly installed the cvs version using the docs/INSTALL in that version, 
so they're not THAT outdated. ;) although it did take some hacking and cries 
for help :)  just let me know what i can do to help.. i don't have the time to 
try and dig into helping with code, so helping with the docs is the least i can 
do...  

and i don't particularly know what DocBooks is, so i can't put that much input 
into that subject. ;)

doug.