Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > ... > >I find this very alarming. Some people at Infrastructure are > >trying to get a cross-project environment established for managing > >documentation tools and site-building. All PMCs were asked to > >join and discuss this. Some people have, but mainly the process > >has stalled again. > > Because it's discussion instead of DIY.
Necessary discussion. The main issue was/is trying to solve how ASF projects can conduct oversight of the content, how the tools would get maintained, and oversight of the publishing process. That is a requirement. > >Instead we see projects like Cocoon rushing off to do their > >own thing. Now we will get duplicate instances of Daisy/Forrest. > > I find it very constructive that people are rushing to make it work. > Consolidation can come later. Good in theory. In my OSS experience "consolidation" never happens. People rush on to the next new thing. > Would it be better just to see this as an experiment, and not (yet) > really move the docs there till we have a vote with a working system and > a plan? Perhaps we should start with a specific set of user-oriented documents, and leave the core docs in the current system. --David
