Hiya Roland, Thanks for bringing this question to the docs forum, much appreciated. We are on a path to providing XML sources, the roadmap is here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/docroadmapr2
Source for ksh.1 will not be delivered for legal reasons. That page will need to be rewritten along with about ~700 other pages. I published that list recently, let me know if you missed it and I'll give you a pointer. To you, maybe the nroff makes no sense, but it is just the first step, and it is focused on licensing--we must do that first. Next step is about large-scale collaboration and that is when we'll grapple with format. We are on target to make the next steps toward the XML sources, but we must first address the gate split. We follow ON, so when they go, we will go soon after. Hope this helps, please review the roadmap and let me know what you think!! Michelle Roland Mainz wrote On 06/19/07 05:11 PM,: > Hi! > > ---- > > [The issue came up on IRC today - again... and I have been asked to > forward it to this forum to ask for an official answer and possibly a > roadmap which leads to a solution] > > Why is Solaris still shipping troff manual pages which are build from > DocBook manpages instead of shipping the DocBook manual pages itself ? > > IMO these "intermediate" troff manpage files do not make much sense > (except that you don't have to ship the DTDs etc.) except that the > current situation blocks other contributors from doing their work (for > example we had a talented contributor who was willing to translate the > ksh93 manual page to japanese using the japanese DocBook sources for > ksh(1) as basis - but the DocBook sources were never released even after > the promise in > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-April/000375.html > ... and after waiting more than six month she finally gave up and helped > other projects (or short: The problem scared another contributor away... > ;-( )). > > Now... a year later... nothing has changed (and there is still no > /usr/man/ja_JP.UTF-8/sman1/ksh.1) ... > > ---- > > Bye, > Roland >
