Re: our online docs

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 13:34 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> I've just noticed that the most recent version of the
> gnome manual online at http://www.gnome.org/learn/ is
> 2.10. 
> 
> Also, while on the subject of docs online, could we do
> something about the masses of dross we have at the top
> of online manuals such as the Style guide and the GDP
> handbook? Is this just a case of changing the XSLT
> that generates those pages?
> 
> I know this risks reopening the recent debate on the
> GFDL, but having swathes of legal jargon, stuff in
> capitals, and names of authors before you even get to
> the contents is offputting to newcomers, and makes
> navigating the document a pain because it makes the
> 'home' link essentially useless. If that is genuinely
> the GFDL's intent, then I state again: it's rubbish.

If we used my stylesheets, this stuff would automatically
be put onto a separate title page.  But what's on the
web now is outdated and built manually.

So who wants to build library.gnome.org?

--
Shaun