[drupal-docs] Re: [drupal-devel] Proposal to remove the help module and a permission

[Andre Molnar]

Neil Drumm wrote:
> Does anyone like the existence of the long help texts?
> 
> I think linking to the handbook is a bad idea at the moment. I'm not
> sure if the multi-language support is ideal. The versioning for Drupal
> versions is non-existent. And I fear changing URLs.

Isn't this where syndication comes in?  Wouldn't it make sense to have a 
help.drupal.org that provides a feed for up to date help text (in all 
available translations and for all drupal versions)?

I'm thinking out loud here, but each help topic in each language for 
each version would be its own syndicated page of content.  Each module 
would simply pull the appropriate help text in and cache it locally.

To reduce server stress (and not have Drupal bombarded by constant feed 
requests) - you could have a 'check for help updates' admin feature 
which would ping help.drupal.org to see if there were any changes, and 
only download changed help and store them locally.

This would only work with core modules, but developer submitted modules 
could provide alternative help.example.com feed locations for their 
custom module help text.

Just thinking out loud.

andre