Re: docs on the web

[David Merrill <david lupercalia net>]

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On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:58, John Fleck wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 06:10, Pat Costello wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > The comments from both John Boyer and Ray Koopman show that there is
> > a need for us to make the GNOME User Guide more generally available.
> > How could we do this? Perhaps we could have a location on the GNOME
> > website where we make the latest GNOME User Guide available in a
> > variety of formats, as well as shipping with the deskop for viewing
> > in Yelp. We could then put the URL into the Where to Find More
> > Information sections in the Introduction and Overview type documents.
> >
> > This would need a bit of updating work and maintaining to make sure
> > that the latest versions are available from the GNOME website
> > location. There seems to be a demand, so we would be providing a
> > needed piece of user support.
> >
> > Any other views or ideas how we can help these users?
>
> Pat -
> Jeff Waugh had a plan in the works to make all of our user
> documentation available on the web site. I'll poke him (poke, poke) to
> see where that stands and see what help he needs from us to make it
> happen (poke, poke).

Lampadas will do it, but whether to go that route presents a difficult 
choice -- wait for it to be ready (could be months before it's ready to 
publish all Gnome documents), or implement something else that will be a 
stopgap. That's assuming you want to go with Lampadas long-term, of 
course, which I think you've said already.

BTW, although the regular Lampadas publishing system isn't ready, it would 
be fairly simple to hack in something temporary. Somebody who knows your 
docs and the publishing system you use now could do it in a weekend, I 
should think.

Even going that route, it's a good month off, and of course even that 
isn't a promise.

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