Hi, I can only agree. Developers have learned docbook a little over the time and we also have a lot of docbook content. A change like this needs a good migration path and a lot of PR to get it through to everyone.
Stefan Matthew East wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
