[documentation] Suggestions for re-documenting Drupal

[Larry Garfield]

On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Marjorie Roswell wrote:
> 1. I agree with you about the need for improved documentation.
> 2. Totally agree that the book module (the hierarchy that you refer to)
> doesn't facilitate good documentation. I may have a different reason for
> feeling that: It's not the hierarchy that I object to: it's just that it is
> EXTREMELY time-consuming to use the drop-down to enter an item into the
> hierarchy. I think it's a huge barrier to adding content.
> 3. That said, I'm fairly well-resigned that the powers-that-be will almost
> never cede the book module model for doing this in favor of a wiki. I've
> seen it discussed on IRC, and the idea of using a wiki was met with such
> snideness that I basically resigned myself to living with incomplete
> documentation forevermore. I wasn't a participant in that conversation, but
> the tone of it seemed to be: this is how we do things, it isn't going to
> change.

I started writing a reply to this point, but it ended up a bit long.  So I 
made it a blog post instead:

http://www.garfieldtech.com/drupal-org-wiki

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