On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:40:54AM -0500, John J. McDonough wrote: > On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 08:55 -0600, David Ashley wrote: > > > > one solution put forward was to figure out how to accept a variety > > of > > input formats into a process that produces the output we want. > > Obviously > > some conversion of the input will need to be performed so that a > > common > > output can be maintained. > > I think this is key. But there is something else we seem to be > ignoring; we need a way to produce reasonable hardcopy output. > > Much of the time you NEED the documentation you don't have access to a > computer or the Internet. When you look something up a lot of the time > the small chunk is very handy. But when you are in deep doo-doo you > often need to be holding a piece of paper in your hot little hands. > Even when things haven't totally gone south, a lot of processes leave > you without access part of the time, and you either need to scribble > down the next steps or have a good memory. [...snip...] I disagree that hardcopy is a priority. Even if your laptop, desktop, or server has gone south and you can't connect, far more than likely than not you have another connection in your hand, called your phone (or tablet). Hardcopy is unnecessary. This isn't to say we shouldn't support printouts, but they should certainly not be a priority or blocker. Mobile friendly makes more sense as a requirement. > Stickster mentioned that we should look to existing tools, and I like > that idea, *IF* we can find something that works. Our history is > littered with tools that looked like they mostly did the job but were > eventually discarded because they couldn't really do what we expected. Precisely why I think it would be good to get content services folks involved. They already have the same needs and the resources to help develop requirements. If Fedora Docs surveys and/or develops something they can't use, chances are not good that we could get additional contribution there. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
