4.6 documentation efforts

[Jim Campbell]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at xfce.org> wrote:

> Le Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:43:03 -0500,
> Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at ubuntu.com> a écrit :
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jean-François Wauthy
> > <pollux at xfce.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 22:28 +0200, Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
> > >
> > >> I won't have time to do it before tomorrow evening (CEST), if
> > >> anyone wants to it before that, feel free but just answer this
> > >> mail to let everyone knows it's done.
> > >>
> > > Finally I found time and put together a first trunk-doc module. I'm
> > > not sure all the things I included are translatable and I might
> > > also have missed other translatable documentations. Just send your
> > > feedback.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
> >
> > I went looking for the doc-trunk module last night, but wasn't able to
> > locate it via the web-svn setup.  Does this still exist?  If someone
> > could provide the url or path, I'd appreciate it.
>
> That simply means viewvc doesn't support it. A svn co will do the job
> without problem.
>
> Btw, I hope we all agree that we want a wiki to update the
> documentation. If so, lets set up a dokuwiki (yet another one) and
> start it up. AFAIK dokuwiki is able or has plugins to output to XML
> which means we can compute it to whatever we want to.
>
> And the workflow should be one way: update the wiki, and before release
> or several times after each wiki update, update the documentation in
> the source tree.
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>

Sorry to keep bugging on this, but does anyone know of a timeline of when
this might be set up? I think it's a great idea to have this kind of a setup
available, and would like to get started on the documentation.

Jim
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