On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 19:59 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Andre Klapper <ak...@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> I was thinking of switching from Docbook to Mallard for 3.6 (I didn't
> >> have time to prepare this for 3.4 already).
> >> The advantages of "GNOME 3 page style" are unclear to me currently,
> 
> Advantages of moving over to using Wordpress for the release notes
> (that I can think of):
> 
>  1. The notes will be on gnome.org rather than under
> library.gnome.org/misc (why are the notes for our new release in a
> 'library'? why are they 'miscellaneous'?)
> 
>  2. Avoid the bookishness of the format (sub-headings everywhere,
> boxes of links interrupting the flow of the document), which is rather
> stilted.
> 
>  3. Allow embedding of richer media, such as lightboxes, image
> galleries and videos.
> 
>  4. Allow flexible design, facilitating a more stylish and attractive layout.
> 
>  5. Allow division of the notes into separate pages, rather than being
> a single *huge* page.

Apart from point 1 and maybe partially point 4:  Isn't this all also
fixable by just switching from Docbook to Mallard? :)

andre
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