Hi all The volunteer writers working on the desktop help and the server guide are Gunnar, Doug, and me. In the interests of transparency I want to say that Peter has already discussed his proposal with us (via email). I've only worked on the desktop help so I am only qualified to discuss the desktop help. Of course I only speak for myself (not for Gunnar and Doug).
I believe the current desktop help processes work pretty well (though I'm not saying they couldn't be improved). Peter is proposing to scrap the existing processes and replace them with new processes that in terms of inputs (let's describe them as source files in thirty odd languages) and outputs (let's describe them as html files and packages in thirty odd languages) do exactly the same thing as the old processes. But with the new processes all the source files would be in Markdown. I'm a newish volunteer so perhaps I can be trusted to give a new volunteer's opinion of Markdown. To me it's just a markup language. If I'm writing or revising a numbered list or creating a section heading or creating a table, etc, it makes little difference to me whether it's in Markdown or another markup language. I don't particularly like any markup language. I'd be able to work faster if we had a well-designed GUI front-end that hid most of the details of the markup language. It's not clear to me that Peter's proposal has significant benefits for users of the documentation or people who want to contribute to the documentation. In my opinion Peter has to provide very strong evidence of significant benefits to get this approved. Regards, Chris Perry. On 15 February 2017 at 22:54, Peter Matulis <[email protected]> wrote: > To reach a wide audience on this matter I sent to a few mailing lists. > Apologies in advance for any collateral damage this may cause. > > Peter > -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
