Re: [Gimp-web] Is the project still running?

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 05:30:08PM +0000, Pat David wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:19 PM Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de> wrote:
>
> > On 08/19/2015 04:55 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry I missed this. Who when and why decided for markdown?
> >
> > #gimp on irc.gimp.org
> >
> > I think all active contributors to anything GIMP should make an effort
> > to be there, otherwise it is really easy to miss out on stuff.
>
> I mentioned the WGO_Redesign page on the wiki (
> http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php?title=WGO_Redesign), in this msg:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-web-list%40gnome.org/msg00191.html
>
> I hadn't heard any feedback, so began working with what I had.  It is not
> tied to markdown.  We can still use restructured text or even html, but I
> outlined reasons why I felt a simple markup format can only help (as
> opposed to expecting contribs to write in pure (x)html markup).

Yes I agree to avoid html, but think that markdown should be avoided.
I conducted a little research for improving the KiCad documentation,
see this:

https://github.com/ciampix/kicad-doc/tree/master/doc_alternatives

the result is that we decided to use asciidoc for the web also.

This is my 2 cents

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Marco Ciampa

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