Exactly what I thought.

Symon.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Jonathon Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Maybe we have a separate doco build that pushes the pages onto the castle
> web site.
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Colin Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Something which needs sorting before this discussion becomes meanful:
>> how do we get this documentation online? I assume we all feel it
>> should be part of the main Castle site? How can we make changes when
>> we need to?
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Jonathon Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > I was thinking the same thing because I'd probably be doing the same
>> thing.
>> >
>> > I think docs committed to SVN is the only feasible way. You also get
>> branch,
>> > merge and patch support for free with subversion.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Markus Zywitza <
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How would that play with offline editing. I'm writing much of my docs
>> in
>> >> public transport far away from any internet access...
>> >>
>> >> -Markus
>> >>
>> >> 2008/10/31 petemounce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >>>
>> >>> There's actually a Drupal module for export-book-to-docbook, I believe
>> >>> (I've read about it, not used it).  If you have a look at
>> >>> http://dev.dejardin.org/documentation at the Spark docs, that's an
>> >>> example of the Spark documentation online in its Drupal instance.
>> >>> Drupal has quite a configurable workflow so changes could be moderated
>> >>> online, and rolled back if required.  If the export to docbook works,
>> >>> it seems like we would achieve both the "easy to contribute" goal and
>> >>> the "easy to publish to variety of formats" goal?  It would also (I
>> >>> guess again in theory) mitigate the need for XML editing.  We would
>> >>> also be able to source-control the exports if we wanted to, of course.
>> >>>
>> >>> Having just typed that, it does sound a bit too good to be true.
>> >>> Would people like me to throw together a Drupal instance for this over
>> >>> the weekend and make it available to try out?
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards
>> >>> Pete
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Oct 31, 1:59 pm, Bill Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>> > I guess I wasn't clear at all about what I would rather: I'd very
>> much
>> >>> > want to contribute patches to something stored in the repo and have
>> the
>> >>> > online stuff generated than have to deal with making changes
>> directly
>> >>> > online. One of the problems with doing the documentation online is
>> that
>> >>> > we would lose the ability to reject changes and instead would need
>> to
>> >>> > undo them after the fact.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Richard Fleming wrote:
>> >>> > > A quick google search (online docbook editor) shows that there
>> looks
>> >>> > > to be projects around that combine "wiki style" websites with
>> docbook
>> >>> > > generators, which may provide an easy way to maintain docbook
>> stored
>> >>> > > documentation.  I know there are some decent offline tools for
>> >>> > > docbook
>> >>> > > also, I've used lyx which is a WYSIWYG editor for structured
>> editing,
>> >>> > > although editing the raw files might be clean as well.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > > Keep in mind I haven't used any of these before, so I don't have
>> >>> > > anything valuable to say about the projects found :).
>> >>> >
>> >>> > > Thanks,
>> >>> > > Rick Fleming
>> >>> >
>> >>> > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Bill Barry <
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >>> > > wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > >> I am not very familiar with docbook docs (other than reading
>> them),
>> >>> > >> but
>> >>> > >> I really do like the output. Would it be written in the repo and
>> the
>> >>> > >> sites generated or would it be some sort of collaborative online
>> >>> > >> thing?
>> >>> >
>> >>> > >> Jonathon Rossi wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > >>> While everyone is on the topic of change, do we want to move to
>> the
>> >>> > >>> docbook documentation that Symon Rottem set up a while back? It
>> >>> > >>> should
>> >>> > >>> make it easier to write documentation.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > >>> Do we really need multiple copies of the documentation hosted
>> like
>> >>> > >>> we
>> >>> > >>> have now? Because documentation tends to lag behind and is
>> always
>> >>> > >>> being updated after a release it might be better to have one
>> copy
>> >>> > >>> like
>> >>> > >>> jQuery has.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > >>> MonoRail example of the docbook format:
>> >>> > >>>http://www.symbiotic-development.com/monorail/html/index.html
>> >>> >
>> >>> > >>> --
>> >>> > >>> Jonathon Rossi
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jonathon Rossi
>> >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Jonathon Rossi
>
> >
>


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Symon Rottem
http://blog.symbiotic-development.com

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