On Dec 11, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Robert Ratliff <ratliff.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One suggestion: > > 1. Create a new page on the wiki, and paste in a chapter's worth or a > section's worth of documentation into the page. Save the page. Be sure > to refer to what version you're pasting in there as the "base version." > > 2. Then re-open the page for editing, make your changes, saving as you > go. These changes would represent the changes that you're suggesting the > developers make to the official (DocBook) documentation. > > 3. The wiki will keep track of the revision history. This gives two > benefits: for writers, it is easy to make changes, and for the > developers, they can use the wiki's history/comparison tools to figure > out what changes the person is suggesting, then migrate that to the > actual docbook. > > Thoughts? > > Also, for the "base version" in step (1) is there an easy way for > contributors to see the nightly HTML build of the gnucash-docs repository? There's a nightly of the docs? If no one beats me to it, I'll test round-tripping to the wiki with pandoc this weekend or next week. If that works, it will be the fastest way to make the docs editable by non programmers. I like the idea of using the wiki's VC to separate changes for committing. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
