On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 06:12:07PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> 
> There must be nice 
> software packages out there that would help around with it.

I use http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/ at work. It's an issue tracker as
well. Though trac might do the both jobs also and I know Matt is itching
to try trac. :)

> UML might be something to look into as long as it doesn't have too
> much of a performance hit.

When you say it like that, it makes it sound as if this move isn't in
the very near future. Just curious.

> I also have to document things for work,

A good sysadmin keeps his job security intact by making it impossible
for another sysadmin to figure out how to admin the boxen. :P

> we can run it through "nice" give it a low priority so nothing else
> suffers like smtp, http, svn, etc.

With a low nice value, then simultaneous wouldn't really hurt.

> Alternatively, we can do a semi render-on-demand too. If you fix a typo 
> there's no real need to re-render the book. Create some dummy file "renderme" 
> in the repository when you commit stuff that's worthy of being renderred 
> immediately rather than the current nightly job. If the post-commit hook 
> script sees the renderme file, run the rendering script (and remove the 
> renderme file). If not, "exit 0" and everybody is happy.

That sounds nice.

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