fedora-list guidelines

Duncan Lithgow duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Fri Apr 1 16:39:51 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 00:17 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:27 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> >  I believe that there should
> > be only one version of it.
> 
> I agree.  You only want to maintain one source and derive all others
> from that.
Since it was probably my suggestion of a wiki version that has caused
some confusion I should mention that I also agree there should only be
one 'official' version. However much of my background in online writing
is based on work with http://indymedia.org and their documentation
project http://docs.indymedia.org . So collaborative effort is something
I believe strongly in and have seen the fruits of - but I'm
digressing...

> > The question now comes to which form to adopt: DocBook or Wiki? 
Of course wiki is unsuited to an 'official' version, but is DocBook
really suited, as Gustavo wonders, to an email list users guide?

I'm inclined to feel that the 'official' version should be plain ascii -
after all that's what we want people to use on the list. All other forms
can then be derivatives of that.

Or would it work for the 'official version to be DocBook which can
generate a txt file?

hmmm, not sure myself

Duncan




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