Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org> writes: > In counterpoint, I'll add to that 4169 packages register 5318 sets of > documents in doc-base. To me, that says that we've got a lot of packages > who are advertising their documentation this way.
I wish I had some feel for how many people were actually using doc-base as a client, though. How many users actually run the tools and use them to find documentation, and is it successful for them? I dutifully provide doc-base registrations for all the documentation in all of my packages, but I think in all the time I've been using Debian I've only run the tool as a user maybe twice, and then only to check whether my package documentation showed up. So the fact that my packages all have doc-base registrations doesn't indicate those registrations are useful, necessarily. > At the user-support BoF at the last DebConf, we also discussed how we > could leverage doc-base files better to make documentation more easily > discoverable. That is work-in-progress. That sort of thing would be really cool. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
