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Posted to docs@httpd.apache.org by Igor Galić <i....@brainsware.org> on 2010/09/19 01:37:56 UTC

Advise for a docs-project kick-off

Hi folks,

Recently I've been looking at how to improve
Apache Traffic Server's Documentation:
http://trafficserver.apache.org/docs.html

Initially it has been written using
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/
with ``help'' from
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/

When looking at the source, the first thing one notices is
that it's HTML (with SSI) only.
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/trafficserver/site/trunk/

>From this fact arises the wish for change: To make the
documentation more accessible to extension and enable easy
transformation to different formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, etc..

I have considered httpd's docs-project as base, but I'm not
sure how easily adaptable that is. From what I gather, most of
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/style/
would need to be rewritten.
My barrier here might be the lack of insight in XSLT.

I'd be glad to hear about your experiences with this or
any other comparably sane documentation system.

So long,
i
-- 
Igor Galić

Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883
Mail: i.galic@brainsware.org
URL: http://brainsware.org/

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Re: Advise for a docs-project kick-off

Posted by Tony Stevenson <to...@pc-tony.com>.
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:37:56PM +0000, Igor Galić wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Recently I've been looking at how to improve
> Apache Traffic Server's Documentation:
> http://trafficserver.apache.org/docs.html
> 
> Initially it has been written using
> http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/
> with ``help'' from
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/
> 
> When looking at the source, the first thing one notices is
> that it's HTML (with SSI) only.
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/trafficserver/site/trunk/
> 
> From this fact arises the wish for change: To make the
> documentation more accessible to extension and enable easy
> transformation to different formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, etc..

Hey, 

I'd be inclinded, if I were you, to wait and see how the CMS works out.  If you can avoid a costly migration to that, it may serve to write the content of the docs now, and do the formatting in that. 


> 
> I have considered httpd's docs-project as base, but I'm not
> sure how easily adaptable that is. From what I gather, most of
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/style/
> would need to be rewritten.
> My barrier here might be the lack of insight in XSLT.
> 
> I'd be glad to hear about your experiences with this or
> any other comparably sane documentation system.
> 
> So long,
> i
> -- 
> Igor Galić
> 
> Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883
> Mail: i.galic@brainsware.org
> URL: http://brainsware.org/
> 
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-- 
Cheers,
Tony


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	Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so
	vividly manifests their lack of progress.



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tony@caret.cam.ac.uk

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