Barracuda docs....

Jacob Kjome <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
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At some point we need to figure out what we want to do with Barracuda's 
docs.  The way things are is not overly manageable.

I think we should use something like Forest from the XML Apache project:
http://xml.apache.org/forrest/index.html

This will make the doc source human readable and allow for lots of 
flexibility in the presentation.  Human readability is important for those 
who might want to contribute to the docs.  They should be able to do so 
using a simple text editor and not have to know much of anything about the 
resulting format of the docs.  This ease of use will, I believe, increase 
contributions to our documentation   which, everyone will agree, requires 
some enhancement.

While it might seem like Forest forces a particular presentation format 
based on most of the sites that use Forest looking almost exactly the same 
( such as http://ant.apache.org/ looking like Forest's layout above ), I 
believe this was a conscious choice of those sites to use what is probably 
the default layout.  Looking at some of the sites who claim to use Forest 
bears this fact out....
http://xml.apache.org/forrest/live-sites.html

There are a few in that list that don't look like standard Forest layout.

I'm not saying we need to do this immediately.  However, we need to get 
some people thinking about it and working on it at some point.  Any 
thoughts?  Any volunteers?

Jake
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