[drupal-docs] Next steps

[Anisa]

Ya'll do realize that the current handbook is one book, and the current 
idea is to make multiple books?  Hence, Handbook root books.  :)

Anisa.

Charlie Lowe wrote:

>bryan kennedy wrote:
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>>Actually that is why I wanted to do it on drupal.org so that nothing 
>>would suffer from link rot.  In our new handbook all links to handbook 
>>content would be internal to the new handbook.  It wouldn't link to the 
>>old handbook pages ever.  Once the new book was ready for prime-time it 
>>would just be linked up as the main handbook and the old frozen one 
>>would be deleted.
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>I was thinking of links from the Drupal forums to specific pages and 
>links from external sites into the handbook. Doesn't seem to be anyway 
>to avoid this other than to edit existing nodes.
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>>I actually think this will create link rot.  If we create everything in 
>>a wiki then we don't have the structure imposed by the book module.  
>>Then we have to re-find all the links as we move pages over since the 
>>wiki will not create node's defined in the book structure.  If the 
>>final destination is a book on drupal.org then let's author in a book 
>>on drupal.org.  If this isn't possible then let's at least author in a 
>>drupal site running the book.module with a protected chunk of node 
>>numbers, so that we can move it over to drupal.org once it is ready 
>>without having to re-write links.
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>Yeah. Seems like either way we loose here. Best solution seems like it 
>might be to create an alternative Drupal handbook, use path alias to 
>name all the pages, then for all internal book links, use the aliases. 
>But then copying over the pages into the previous nodes would be a 
>problem because path aliases have to be unique. This suggests that the 
>new handbook has to be built off of drupal.org, perhaps on a subdomain 
>as has been suggested before. I'm starting to think this is the best way 
>to go. Besides, wikis are nice, but eating our own dog food is better.
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