From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Aug 28 3:39:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C45C14DAA; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 03:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.212]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990828104217.PUYK3442178.mta1-rme@wocker>; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:42:17 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Nik Clayton Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:37:40 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Supporting non-DocBook documents in the tree Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <19990827132242.A26830@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <19990828104217.PUYK3442178.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27 Aug 99, at 13:22, Nik Clayton wrote: > Specifically, I'm thinking of the sort of author who's just made a bit of a > breakthrough on something ("How I got my mumblefrozz card working under > FreeBSD") and wants to contribute that to the project. They've written it > up in either plain text, or HTML, and that's what they send us. Their > point of view is that they're doing us a favour, and that they shouldn't > have to spend more of their time learning DocBook before we'll take their > article. I think this is a wholly understandable point of view. I think it's a good idea to accept non DocBook stuff. > I get the impression that we're currently viewed as being a bit > inflexible about the formats that we accept documentation in, and that even > when we do accept submissions, it takes us a while to get around to > converting them to DocBook. This is mostly due to lack of manpower. What is the main reason for using DocBook as opposed to some other format? -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message