+1. Please use fire.
> On 18 Mar 2017, at 17:44, Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > > good idea, +1 > >> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> +1 >> >> Cheers >> Jan >> -- >> >>> On 18 Mar 2017, at 05:55, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I'd like to propose dropping the PDF and texinfo targets from our >>> documentation build, or at the very least, having them not be part of >>> the default target / not standard deliverables for the project. >>> >>> We'd continue to build HTML documentation as part of the workflow, >>> naturally, as well as the man pages. >>> >>> I don't have any solid numbers, but I'm fairly sure most people use >>> https://docs.couchdb.org/ or a locally installed copy for their >>> documentation for CouchDB rather than the PDF documentation. I >>> personally can't remember the last time I opened the docs in PDF form. I >>> also have never seen anyone refer to the PDF docs on the mailing lists, >>> IRC or Slack when asking for advice or support. >>> >>> I've also never seen anyone use or talk about the texinfo target, and >>> I've not used them myself. >>> >>> Dropping this dependency will allow us to drop TeX/LaTeX from our build >>> chain, which speeds up build times by about 90 seconds and reduces the >>> size of containers currently being built for our Jenkins CI workflow. >>> It also means CouchDB devs don't have to install 0.5-1.5GB worth of >>> toolset. >>> >>> I've captured this in JIRA as >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-3329 and have PRs ready >>> to fire off if people agree. >>> >>> Your thoughts? >>> >>> -Joan >>
