Before I went ahead and started making suggestions about if SIMILE needs 
a CMS vs a wiki site, I should have stepped back and asked what the 
overall documentation strategy is.  I should have probably also asked if 
there were previous discussions about community building plans and how 
things have gone the past few years.  Sorry about that.  So, I started 
this new thread.  :-)


What is the overall documentation strategy?

1) complete community contributed documentation in a wiki/CMS, including 
api references, examples, and HowTo articles.  This seems to be where we 
are now.

2) dynamically derived documentation from the code itself (could use 
Natural Docs, http://www.naturaldocs.org/ or similar, e.g., 
http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.7/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers-js.html)
  
This would require the authors to add much more info the code.  
Community would contribute examples and general articles.

3) select a documentation team to create api reference and other 
FAQs/important info.  (could use Sphinx, http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ or 
similar, from restructured text, e.g., 
http://mapserver.org/documentation.html)  Community would again 
contribute examples and general articles but under the guidelines of the 
doc team.


And I'm sure there are many others.   Has this been previously discussed 
or decided upon?  Any thoughts on best approaches?  

- John


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