Re: Lampadas development plans

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 20:16, Eric Baudais wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 09:49, David Merrill wrote:
> > I want to run some of my plans past you to see if you can live with
> > them...
> > 
> > Reading information about files from CVS I can handle in the first
> > release. I can show logs, history, commits, anything that can be
> > pulled from cvs. That's all very easy to do.
> 
> That is essentially what we want.  We would like Lampadas to be smart
> with CVS and automatically update the last date the documentation in CVS
> was changed.  This data would be put directly into the database.
> 
> > Eventually Lampadas will allow you to edit documents through the web,
> > almost like a Wiki but without the promiscuous editing of a Wiki,
> > although that will also be possible depending how you set your
> > permissions. It will include the WikiText format, so editing is as
> > easy as in a Wiki, but you can embed any DocBook tags right into the
> > text. So, writing DocBook becomes enormously simpler and easier.
> 
> This isn't as important to the GNOME project as a good document
> management system.

Just to reinforce what Eric said, I don't think a web interface for
actually writing/submitting docs is very important to us right now. I
can see how it might be useful down the road, but right now the main
thing we need is an easy way to track the status of all of our
documentation.

Thanks for all the great work, David and Eric.

Cheers,
John
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