[drupal-docs] Why we decided to add reference to the drupal
handbook in administration help
Gabor Hojtsy
gabor at hojtsy.hu
Thu Sep 29 14:14:36 UTC 2005
> Oi, geez! ;) One thing at a time! ;)
>
> Actually that's an interesting idea, and would allow an easy way to
> update help between major versions of Drupal (for typos, clarifications,
> additions, etc.). I'm just not sure how it would work in practice with
> the help system as it currently is, though. Help text is stored within
> .module files, not in the database at all, so it would require write
> access to the modules directory and this is probably not desirable due
> to potential security risks (user somehow uploading a "rogue" module).
>
> However, moving the help to a database table is another option which
> I've seen discussed elsewhere, and if that happened something on this
> order would be feasible I think.
Keep localzation in mind too. This way, drupal.org would host all
translations of all versions of the documentation to be made available
for some specific language.
Goba
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