Jody Garnett wrote:
Chris Holmes wrote:
First off I apologize for not fully reading this thread, I've been on
vacation and there's just a pile of email waiting. If this question
has been resolved just point me at the relevant discussions.
But _why_ are we reverting back to docbook? A few years ago we moved
to wiki to get _away_ from docbook. The thought was to lower the
barrier to entry for new contributors, just put all the docs on a
wiki. And I think this worked pretty well, we have far more content
than we did before.
Because I can no longer ask ACuster to waste his time, we have been
unable to move off codehaus (even to the facilities you offered) because
of XML export failing.
To sum up: GeoTools Developers guide worked on the wiki, and now the
document is mostly in stable, it is easy to maintain etc...
GeoTools Users Guide is a mess, I have tried to delete the whole thing
twice now as it does more damage then good in current form. ACuster is
trying to put together a replacement (the only volunteer in a couple
years) and confluence is not working out for him.
I concede that without a solid maintainer it's spiraled a bit out of
control. But wiki lets you do pdf export and the like, so I'm not
sure I understand the advantages of docbook? And the disadvantages
are clear and proven for us, we get less documentation contributions
when users have to check out and commit on svn just to add a line or
two to the docs=
pdf is not working, the pages are not ordered and the bug does not look
to be on a schedule to get it fixed.
Ok, cool. Sorry for not wading through all the original emails. So is
the developers guide staying in wiki? Or is someone porting that?
C
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