Re: TODO, FAQs to Wiki?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TODO, FAQs to Wiki?
Date: 2008-04-19 18:32:12
Message-ID: 480A3AAC.8030603@commandprompt.com
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> The FAQs are another matter however. I suggested some time back
>> moving those to DocBook XML. A friend was working on a script to do
>> the initial conversion automatically. The nice thing about it is
>> that we can then use the xml2po tools to create PO files for
>> translation. This means that translations are more easily kept up to
>> date. Are you open to this possibility?
>
> What would be the advantage of keeping it in DocBook over the wiki? One
> of the main advantages of keeping it on the wiki would be to allow
> others to help out with the editing of them.

Two words:

print format

If we want to push the FAQ to the wiki, we should write a stylesheet
that transforms the docbook to wiki output (wouldn't be surprised if
such a beast already exists) but the source should be Docbook or ODF.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

P.S. I am not actually suggesting ODF

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