On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:53:34PM +0200, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > > Should I present this idea to the docs project, pending the agreement of > most, if not all, those involved in this discussion? I'm mulling the > idea of even heading it, if no one else is more appropriate for the > task... That is definitely the right attitude, thanks. "Better man pages" was on the list of Red Hat's various technical writing teams since ... 1999? The problem is resources -- it is a huge task for a small group of people to wade through. As Rahul pointed out, mitwi is an example of working to make man pages accessible from a documentation site without manual intervention. It came from a goal of putting a simpler (wiki) interface in front of man pages, with automagic conversion behind the scenes. But even with the easiest tools we can muster, it is still a giant cat herding effort to get packagers behind man page improvements. What is needed is that can-do attitude, followed by the actual doing, of course. :) - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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