[drupal-docs] Handbook 2

[Boris Mann]

> On 16 Apr 2005, at 06:34, Anisa wrote:
> >  So, as far as I know, someone was looking into DocBooks/LaTeX.

Lots of developers piped up about wanting to use it, and use CVS for
keeping it under version control and using a script to generate the
HTML online version...but no one who actually writes documentation
wants anything to do with it.

> > Features requests were filed for the book module, but it is unknown if
> > anyone is actually working on it, no patches have been submitted.

It's not unknown: there IS no one working on it, they were just
suggestions. It's not currently a "need" for anyone, so it doesn't get
built unless it gets funded.

On 4/16/05, Dries Buytaert <dries at buytaert.net> wrote:
> Most of the features have been asked for 1-2 years ago so I wouldn't
> assume anyone is going to work on them, unless they are getting paid
> to. Maybe this makes for a good "reverse bounty" (see Boris' post at
> http://drupal.org/node/20301).

Dries, would you be willing to use Drupal.org money to do this? Are
there other things desired for Drupal.org that could be funded? Just
thinking out loud here...

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Boris Mann
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