On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Andre Klapper <ak...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> > >> > >> I was thinking of switching from Docbook to Mallard for 3.6 (I didn't > >> have time to prepare this for 3.4 already). > >> The advantages of "GNOME 3 page style" are unclear to me currently, > > Advantages of moving over to using Wordpress for the release notes > (that I can think of): > > My main objection would be translation. One of the problems is that I would like to see our content/news/release notes translated so that we can have greater coverage. I feel that english makes us somewhat limited. At least, let's agree that if we do it on wordpress that we have it in English and Spanish. sri > 1. The notes will be on gnome.org rather than under > library.gnome.org/misc (why are the notes for our new release in a > 'library'? why are they 'miscellaneous'?) > > 2. Avoid the bookishness of the format (sub-headings everywhere, > boxes of links interrupting the flow of the document), which is rather > stilted. > > 3. Allow embedding of richer media, such as lightboxes, image > galleries and videos. > > 4. Allow flexible design, facilitating a more stylish and attractive > layout. > > 5. Allow division of the notes into separate pages, rather than being > a single *huge* page. > > >> however I would first have to know what markup language this move would > >> imply, > > Wordpress reduces the need for markup. The only markup you need is > html for formatting and embedding media, plus for bits of fancier page > layout. > > >> plus if anybody would be actually willing to prepare this move. > > Actually writing the notes and doing the markup would be less work > than with Docbook or Mallard, so in that respect we'd save time and > effort. However, we would need a bit of extra help on the web > development side if we wanted to make the notes look really nice. > > > I'm interested in this as well. As Shaun noted about translations I > would > > like to see this translated in as many languages as possible. > > > > We'll need to start on this soon. > > Most of the pieces are in place to make gnome.org translatable using > the standard GNOME infrastructure. We just need to hook it up to damn > lies [1]. I've spoken to Vinicius and he's confident that we can have > it ready in time to get the release notes translated. > > Allan > > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671647 > -- > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ >
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