about Fundamental issues

[Christian Loose]

Am Dienstag, 20. April 2004 22:37 schrieb Carlos Leonhard Woelz:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:19:20 -0300, "Henrique Pinto"
>
> <henrique.pinto at kdemail.net> said:
> > > I wouldn't have time to *join* any documentation team, and learn all
> > > the tools, but I would probably, in my spare moments, be able to go
> > > along and add a few words here and there if they're out of date. I
> > > might also be able to go and contribute to the en_GB i18n.
> > >
> > > The only question that would arise is: would the documentation teams be
> > > able to effectively police it, and spot incorrect or malicious changes?
> > >
> > > What are people's thoughts?
> >
> > I like your idea. What about asking on the kde-doc-english mailinglist?
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-quality
>
> This idea is good, but I don't think it is feasible.
>
> The docs.kde.org already offer a view of the current KDE docs (CVS or 3.2
> branch). As someone who maintains identical wiki and cvs versions of
> documents, in a less complex format (html x docbook), I can tell you it
> would be a lot of work to maintain the wiki for all KDE docs.
>
> It would require writing tools for automatic docbook => wiki and wiki =>
> docbook. Manual conversion takes to much work. Even with this tool, it
> would require a lot of hand ajustment, unfortunately.
>

I found this today on freshmeat.net http://freshmeat.net/projects/doc-book/ 
might be worth a look although it seems to be in a very early stage.

Christian