-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
* Don Scorgie: > (Resend. Hopefully it'll go through this time) > > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:45 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:19 +0200, karderio wrote: > <snip> >> Now here's everybody's first chance to get in on the fun: >> The code name for the project-as-a-whole is Project Mallard. >> This is sort of an inside poke at DocBook. But Mallard is >> a dumb name for a help format. So everybody: >> >> NAME MY XML FORMAT! I am really happy that lots of thought and action seems to be happening in relation to improving the structure of the help system and making it easier to have upstream and distro documentation sitting alongside each other. However, if I might add a word of caution. I have not seen anything in the recent threads which documents *why* a move away from docbook is actually necessary for a better help system to work. I haven't seen any discussion of it either. I have to say, that with all the progress that has been made on the toolset around docbook [1], a sudden move away from docbook just feels slightly like moving the goalposts. [1] Especially the fact that we will soon have tools available to allow people to work on a WYSIWYG basis in a collaborative way (via a Moin wiki) and produce docbook. This isn't really a criticism, but I'd really like to know why docbook has been rejected as inadequate for the implementation of a modular help system. I'm not attached to a particular format as such, but I think that now that some good work has been put in to supporting docbook, I'd like to see a move away from it justified more carefully. Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEsi7otSaF0w5rBv8RAsrgAJ9/SIl4i5A3jS945OEVnP13lx+rZwCeOmIu SzsdjqrLkn/232snAfKdCdA= =iF1m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
