In other words you want the best of both worlds. So far I havent found
such thing..

Might consider giving this drupal a try...

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Bill Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I really don't care what the format we use is, just the following:
>
> 1. information is easy to find
> 2. information follows a sensible order (related things feel related,
> you aren't pushed to read something you don't need, you are pushed to
> read the things you do need to know first)
> 3. it is easy to contribute to
> 4. contributions are easy to review before inclusion
> 5. contributions are encouraged
> 6. contributors do not require the skills of a magazine editor (eg the
> documentation leader(s) could put out a request for info on a feature
> and a potential contributor like myself can give the raw facts without
> worrying about trying to make it easy to grok or concern that it will be
> ignored [btw, I am a bad example here because I'd probably fit more in
> at the editorial side than the fact giving side]).
>
> Am I missing anything?
>
> hammett wrote:
>> Some background for what's worth:
>>
>> - In the previous wiki style things were just too disconnected. Works
>> fine for wikipedia but not for something that might need to have a
>> reading order
>> - There was an attempt to keep each article on the new format very
>> short. This is pure usability. If people see a long scroll they feel
>> it's gonna take too much time to read and leave. This is especially
>> true for the getting started sections
>> - The format and organization was inspired by apache httpd documentation
>> - Keeping documentation for older versions was also inspired by the
>> apache httpd documentation and a book suggested this approach as well.
>> I think the book was "Producing Open Source Software"
>> - I sincerely dislike the docbook style, but I'm willing to give it a
>> try. Never really liked the way NHibernate and Spring are documented.
>> - The anakia style is also an attempt to keep formatting/layout
>> separated from the docs. I think that was successful, but it does make
>> contribution more difficult.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>



-- 
Cheers,
hammett
http://hammett.castleproject.org/

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