[openbeos] Re: On the new Haiku website

  • From: "DarkWyrm" <darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:20:10 -0400 EDT

> On 8/17/06, Miguel Zúñiga <mzuniga@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On the official side, the Documentation Team is kind of... on stand 
> > by.
> > I am waiting for two years for the official doc-team, but since the 
> > Wiki
> > came
> > i had the chance to "publish" some text i wrote, and get some
> > feedback. I realize i am not a big programmer, but it is the more 
> > "official"
> > channel available for interacting and giving opinions.
> 
> Why don't you start the official Documentation Team? Ask all the 
> other
> wiki contributors and start writing. But before you do that, we need
> to make a few decisions:
> 
> Which format?
> * DocBook
> * LaTeX
> * ...?
> __ To me, DocBook sounds good.
Last I knew, we had officially decided on DocBook format for 
documentation.

> > I vote for subdomains. It would be easier to review and correct the
> > "unofficial"
> > content than begin all over again from scratch. Having at least 
> > something
> > to compare with for the final documentation, when it is time to do 
> > it. With
> > a
> > subdomain, there will be a feeling of "unofficial but accepted", 
> > and Drupal
> > provides that possibility...
> 
> Subdomains really never gave me the feeling of "unofficial". If it's
> in a subdomain the offical project must have set it up. How can this
> be understood as unoffical? And if you put "Unoffical" on every page
> in the subdomain people will probably doubt that haiku-os.org is
> official.
I would agree. I'm all for the idea mentioned a while ago to use a 
separate domain for community efforts.

--DarkWyrm

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