Re: [RFC] making release notes a community effort

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On Wednesday 06 April 2005 20:21, Stuart Ellis wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 19:10 +0200, Ronny Buchmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 00:21, Stuart Ellis wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:41 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > > > As I work with the Wiki on the monolithic release notes, I can say
> > > > unequivocally that it is a pain.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps if we had each section with it's own page.  But then
> > > > integration into a single file for /usr/share/doc/fedora-release/ is
> > > > more of a challenge.
> > >
> > > My experience with them is that you pretty much have to submit and do
> > > things the way the CMS software wants you to, or give up and find
> > > another system (or just go mad).  MoinMoin assumes heavily linked
> > > meshes of small blocks of content...
> >
> > Wich is not a problem, you can use [[Include(subpage)]] to get single
> > page output.
>
> I see what you mean:
>
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraDocs_2fReleaseNotes_2fCore4Test1?ac
>tion=raw
>
> Neat.
thanks

Reasonable PageNames are key to this. 

>
> > I could also write a
> > MoinMoin to DocBook (or HTML) conversion.
>
> MoinMoin > simple DocBook export would probably be a useful thing for
> lots of people, not just this project, if you were interested in doing
> it.
MoinMoin is on the way to produce xml AFAIK, but that's not in time for FC4.

> On the Fedora Wiki specifically I think that being able to pick up
> material from, say, the Extras pages, as DocBook for feeding into other
> documents would be useful even if we don't explicitly use the Wiki for
> drafting.
It would be really helpful to have a recent MoinMoin installation on 
fedoraproject.org, this would reduce some work needed (it produces [almost] 
valid html) and is IMHO much more easy to use. (see Linuxwiki.org for 
example)

Who maintains fedoraproject.org?

-- 
http://LinuxWiki.org/RonnyBuchmann


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