Unico Hommes wrote:
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Sylvain Wallez wrote:
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Yes it *is* about the technology. Why don't we have cool docs? Because
writing them in XML is a major PITA. That's why I dislike writing docs
so much.
Give me an htmlarea in a webapp and I'll be happy to dump my brain. And
we have this today with Cocoon.
That gets me thinking that perhaps, instead of installing a ready to go
CMS like Daisy or Lenya or whathaveyou, we should just start right
there. I mean, install a minimal Cocoon with Linotype at
cocoon.zones.apache.org and start adding the features we want to it.
As a start I'd volunteer to make Linotype use our SVN repository as its
backend. I'm sure we can find some space in our repository for that.
My initial idea was very similar (instead of Linotyp I'd use Cocoon Forms with a
widget styled using HTMLArea), see
http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/CocoonDocumentationSystem. The new flat structure
of documents (every document is a directory with a bunch of documents) was
designed to be easily integrated into a tiny, self-written CMS on top of it.
If I escaped my daily work for a few days I'm sure I could come up with
something useful - I'm sure this is valid for many others in this community too.
This discussion has been gaining so much momentum it's clear that we
should just start to fucking implement the doko before all this energy
disperses because of some political standoff or people waiting for each
other to make the first move.
BTW. Where *is* Linotype? I found this
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=110705988801725&w=2 but
looking at http://simile.mit.edu/ I can't seem to find it. Linotype in
the 2.1 branch seems to be somewhat broken.
Stefano moved it out of 2.2 and will release (or has already) Linotype 2.
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