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cvs commit: httpd-2.0/docs STATUS
slive 2003/01/09 12:14:26
Modified: docs Tag: APACHE_2_0_BRANCH STATUS
Log:
Having duplicate status files is confusing. This one is henceforth
reserved only for 2.0 BRANCH work. Anything that applies to both
2.0 and 2.1 should be included in HEAD's STATUS (2.1).
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RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-2.0/docs/STATUS,v
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diff -u -d -b -u -r1.53.2.4 -r1.53.2.5
--- STATUS 16 Dec 2002 03:15:36 -0000 1.53.2.4
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@@ -1,190 +1,9 @@
Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation Status File.
Last modified: $Date$
-If you are interested in helping accomplish some of the tasks on this
-list or otherwise improving the documentation, please join the
-apache-docs mailing list by mailing to docs-subscribe@httpd.apache.org
-
For more information on how to contribute to the Apache Documentation
-Project, please see http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/, and
-http://apache-server.com/tutorials/ATdocs-project.html for an excellent
-tutorial on how to get started with making your contribution.
-
- ------------------------------
-
-Things That Need Fixing
-=======================
-
-- XML
- - Rewriting of the remainder of the manual into xml is in
- progress. See the bottom of this file for status info.
- - add ids to non-directive sections of the module docs, so they
- get a chance to be linked in the sidebar
-
-- Windows platform docs are in desperate need of rewrites/updates for 2.0.
- - Bill Rowe and Bill Stoddard are good contacts for tech questions.
- - "using apache" has been done, "compiling apache" is still open
-
-- New Auth system
- - Roll back the changes for new auth that are deferred for release 2.2.
-
-- Figure out what to do about the 2.0 FAQ
- - Copy important stuff from 1.3?
- - Some kind of XML?
- - Something that allows dynamic contributions from users a la
- FAQ-O-Matic? (I don't think any really good software exists
- for this.)
-
-- modules docs
- - mod_suexec: very little documentation
- - mod_proxy: updates for 2.0
- - mod_status: updates for 2.0
- - mod_example: updates for 2.0
-
-- man pages
- - Convert from nroff to our xml format. See list at bottom.
- - Then if someone gets creative, they can try to find an automatic
- way to convert back to nroff.
- - An example: http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/xmlto/db2man/
- This is designed for docbook, but it could be adapted.
- I'm not sure what the license is.
-
-- MPM documentation
- - Non unix/windows MPMs still need to be completed.
- - the perchild directives in threaded/worker need docs
-
-- Individual docs will need some cleanup.
- - misc/custom_errordocs.html needs to be updated to
- essentially describe how the international error
- docs included in 2.0 work
- - misc/perf-tuning.html - needs major rewrite for 2.0
- - misc/tutorials.html - mostly not relevant to 2.0
- - misc/stopping.html
- - misc/rewriteguide.html - needs cleaning in 1.3 and 2.0
- - misc/known_client_problems.html - mostly ancient
- - platform/ebcdic.xml - needs major rework for 2.0
-
-- New build process.
- - install.html has had a first-pass rewrite, it is basically
- accurate, but very incomplete.
-
-- API documentation
- Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
-
-- Several features in Apache require write-access to the filesystem.
- Examples: CacheRoot, DavLockDB, ScriptLog
- We should treat the things consistently in the docs, and perhaps
- suggest the use of directory like /usr/local/apache2/var/ that is
- httpd-writable.
-
-- Translations
- There are several efforts underway to translate the documentation
- into other languages. A detailed list of the currently known
- translators (and the corresponding websites) can be found at
-
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/translations.html
-
-
-Documentation improvements
-==========================
-
-* New user docs: Directory Handling (mod_dir/mod_autoindex/etc)
-
-* Enhancements to the DTD/XSL:
- - <glossary> tag that links to the glossary and uses some special
- style in the css.
- - New index: directives by context, including listing which directives
- are available for each AllowOverride setting.
- - Use a tag like <var> in place of <em> for things like the
- <syntax> listing.
- - nd volunteers
- - add letter links to glossary and quickreference,
- perhaps also a term overview (sidebar)
- - cross references between the different languages,
- at least links from non-en docs to the originals.
- - Javascript?
- - post processing (s&r, XML::Parser, ...)?
- - pre processing ([kind of] type maps
- generated from sitemap entries like:
- <page><variant lang="en" href="">title</variant>)?
- - looking for other good ideas ;-)
- - remove <pre> elements. Use <br /> and <indent> elements to get
- same effect.
- - need to add new <parentdocument> element to more docs
-
-* Autogeneration of PDF
- - FOP?
-
-* Windows help file
- - David Shane Holden was working on this
-
-* Improving the "security docs"
- - More content and better organisation.
-
-* General cleaning and improving of module docs
-
-* Making the directive definitions "less terse" (i.e., adding more
- examples and details to the definitions of the directives)
-
- - We'll need to audit these and find out which ones need munging, as
- some of it looks ok. --jsl
-
-* Making site-specific enhancements easier, including a documented
- and robust way for 3P module docco to be added -- and have it
- survive a server docco upgrade
-
- - This could be something a simple and hackish as a manual/extra/
- directory (a la the 1.3 src/modules/extra/ directory) and a
- script in the support directory that scans the files there and
- updates the manual indices. (We do something like that now for
- httpd.conf file with apxs [LoadModule, etc.].)
-
-XML Conversions
-===============
-
-The following files need to be converted to XML as described at
-http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/docsformat.html
-
-index.html.en # leave in html?
-howto/auth.html.en
-misc/custom_errordocs.html # obsolete?
-misc/descriptors.html # obsolete?
-misc/fin_wait_2.html # obsolete?
-misc/known_client_problems.html # obsolete?
-misc/tutorials.html # obsolete?
-expand.pl # delete after finishing everything
-
-# These will require manual.xsl changes
-faq/footer.html
-faq/header.html
-faq/index.html
-faq/support.html
-
-# Perhaps these should be left in html to allow the developers to
-# play with them
-developer/API.html
-developer/debugging.html
-developer/documenting.html
-developer/filters.html
-developer/footer.html
-developer/header.html
-developer/hooks.html
-developer/index.html
-developer/layeredio.html
-developer/request.html
-developer/thread_safety.html
-developer/modules.html.en
+Project, please see http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/
-# converting from nroff to xml
-programs/ab.html
-programs/apxs.html
-programs/dbmmanage.html
-programs/footer.html
-programs/header.html
-programs/htdigest.html
-programs/htpasswd.html
-programs/index.html
-programs/logresolve.html
-programs/other.html
-programs/rotatelogs.html
-programs/suexec.html
\ No newline at end of file
+This document contains only documentation issues related to 2.0 alone.
+For general documentation issues, or those that relate both to 2.0 and
+to future versions, please see the same file in httpd-2.0 HEAD.
Re: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/docs STATUS
Posted by Erik Abele <er...@codefaktor.de>.
slive@apache.org wrote:
> slive 2003/01/09 12:14:26
>
> Modified: docs Tag: APACHE_2_0_BRANCH STATUS
> Log:
> Having duplicate status files is confusing. This one is henceforth
> reserved only for 2.0 BRANCH work. Anything that applies to both
> 2.0 and 2.1 should be included in HEAD's STATUS (2.1).
>
great idea! thanks, Joshua!
cheers,
erik
BTW, I just added a bit more info and some votes.
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