-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Neil Drumm

The root problem is that help texts are in PHP code. The sets of people who can edit PHP code and write good help text have a relatively small intersection. And the workflow is shorter; edit a page happens much quicker than patch, edit, diff.

Help texts as nodes on Drupal.org seems like a fine idea until you have to get them back into Drupal. I hear that part is annoying. It was painful to watch Kieran try and make it work when I was his coworker at CivicSpace.

The other issue is versioning. All paths lead to the current live version so updating text in the handbook will lead people in 4.7 to 5.0 help texts when we update them