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Re: doc-central

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On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 at 08:13:08 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Diane Trout wrote:
> 
> > Being able to find all your documentation in one place would really be
> > convenient.
> 
> I don't think doc-base/doc-central will ever be the answer to this as
> it is very specific to Debian and thus not available on other distros.
> Eventually the Freedesktop folks will come up with something
> cross-distro and cross-desktop and we will have to replace doc-base
> with it, just like we had to do with the Debian-specific menu system.

... unless someone from Debian with an interest in documentation goes
upstream and comes up with something cross-distro, cross-desktop and
suspiciously similar to doc-base. Relevant people to talk to would
include the maintainers of GNOME's yelp (user-facing, usually-topic-based
help in Docbook or Mallard format, processed into HTML for viewing) and
devhelp (developer reference documentation in any format, processed into
HTML at build-time), and their equivalents in other upstream projects.

As far as I understand it, yelp and devhelp are separate apps as a
deliberate design choice, because they have different audiences and
requirements. Whether you agree with it or not, understanding the
reasoning behind that design choice seems likely to be valuable.

    smcv

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doc-central Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-10-13 00:10 +0200
  Re: doc-central Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-10-13 00:40 +0200
    Re: doc-central Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2017-10-13 02:20 +0200
      Re: doc-central Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2017-10-13 09:50 +0200
        Re: doc-central Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-10-13 19:40 +0200
  Re: doc-central Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> - 2017-10-13 01:10 +0200

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