On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 04:44:01PM -0800, Alta Elstad wrote: > <p>Note 1: I have made changes to the MDB guide in response to > <a > href="http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=42222&tstart=15";>this > post</a>. The changes have been approved by Frank Hofmann. I was waiting to > release this small change with SXDE 1/08, but this discussion is moving fast, > so maybe I better release it now. The changes are small - only on two > pages.</p> > > <p>Note 2: We in Sun documentation do have the ability now to save a Solbook > as MediaWiki, which I requested since both genunix.org and > solarisinternals.com are MediaWiki. I could put the book in one of those > places instead of, or in addition to, Michelle's usual XML delivery method, > but I don't know whether I can do that legally. Michelle, please advise.</p> > > <p>I am happy to do whatever people want that I can do. Please let me > know.</p> > > <p>Note 3: I have spoken with two Sun engineers about providing more > examples, but then I got busy and I'm sorry to say I have not followed up on > that yet. More examples can be part of the book and can also be provided > separately, such as beefing up the cheat sheet.</p> > > <p>I understand that you want to update the book yourselves, but please let > me know if there is anything I can do to help.</p> > > <p>Alta Elstad<br>Solaris developer tech pubs</p>
I'm not sure what your intent was around Note 2, but just to be clear: saving as MediaWiki is of some use but does not address the fundamental set of requirements I described earlier in this mail trail. We need to be empowering the community to create content -- i.e. we need to make the golden source of the content be in a wiki form, not using wikis as a read-only output format. -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Solaris Kernel Development. blogs.sun.com/mws/
