4.6 documentation

[Christian Dywan]

Am Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:10:22 +0100
schrieb Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:

> Am Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:41:35 +0100
> schrieb Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de>:
> 
> > Am Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:27:19 +0100
> > schrieb Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com>:
> > 
> > > I was looking in a more wiki like approach and started working on
> > > that a bit, see if it works.
> > > It allows the documentation to be written and translated in a wiki
> > > and we generate docbooks from the wiki contents and pull it in the
> > > repositories once in a while. This way more people can work on the
> > > documentation (of course only registered users can change the wiki
> > > contents) so we have up2date docs online and not messing with the
> > > docbook format makes the whole thing a lot easier for everyone (i
> > > guess?).
> > 
> > Note two potential problems with that approach, although I generally
> > like the idea:
> > 
> > You actually can edit pages without being registered or logged in
> 
> Depends on the wiki and the setup. 
> 
> > I couldn't see what license the content has, it should be defined
> > somewhere
> 
> That's not a problem, is it?  I mean, we could just add license
> information to every page and add a seperate page for the whole
> license itself.

I was assuming the Xfce wiki, of course if you intend to setup a new
wiki or reconfigure the Xfce wiki that can be avoided.

Just mentioning my concerns since not everyone necessarily recognizes
those points as problems :)

ciao,
    Christian