On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:58:11 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as these discussions go, we should probably move to debian-doc > since this discussion isn't about, directly, solving users' problems. > What say ye? If this seems reasonable, let me know and I'll post this > whole reply as you see it over to debian-doc (this saves debian-doc > from receiving this from _all_ of us). I just subscribed. I'm also cross-posting this to debian-doc. > If they're used to it. Each of us has a different focus, which is > good. Mine is the novice who isn't used to anything. I was planning on writing a more general introduction to computers (OS agnostic). > A couple of problems with using versioning/docbook, that probably have > solutions but I'm unfamiliar with both: I'm on a slow dial-up line. > With versioning does that mean that I grab the current version, > download it which locks others out of grabing it, edit it, then > upload the new version? That cycle could take a while and tie up the > document. Concurrent versioning solves exactly that. You download a copy of the file, edit it locally and then upload the changed file. If the original file has changed the changes are merged if they don't conflict or you get a notice and you can solve the conflict manually. > I _think_ that a wiki makes this a lot faster. It allows us to > generate html. However, it makes it difficult to break it up into > small documents and link them together again, and to make other > formats. I think the wiki should be our primary focus, then use the content from the wiki to create other versions (html, plain text, ...) using cvs/svn whatever. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
