Re: Getting more people involved.. bye bye Docbook

Just my 0.02 <put your favorite fractional monetary unit> I like MD and rST, but I think Markdown, in particular with the extensions in: http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/, shoould suffice for just documentation. Semantic content, which is something people were refering to, might be given by the file/directory structure, rather than the contents themselves. /me goes back to the old farts cave -- Jesus M. Castagnetto <jesus@castagnetto.com> Web: http://www.castagnetto.com/ On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Kinn Coelho Julião <kinncj@php.net> wrote: > For me > <source lang=php> > <? echo "Hello world!"; > </source> > > same as: > > ```php > <? echo "Hello world!"; > ``` > > > > https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet#code-and-syntax-highlighting > > this is totally readable to me, and in github days, people are > more > comfortable with some markdown (they love README.md) > > IMHO, this change will let more people contribute with the docs... > markdowns are readable as a simple text file... > and I know that this is out of scope in this thread, but the markdown > changes mixed with Git (migration to github), will make our lives easier to > review the contributions, suggest updates for some PR and merge them as it > works with the core... > > > 2013/8/14 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk@eunet.rs> > >> On 14/08/13 06:04, Christian Weiske wrote: >> >>> Have you people considered simply moving the documentation to a wiki? >>>> For example, MediaWiki? >>>> >>>> * Build time in seconds. >>>> * Wikitext syntax is as simple as any other presented so far. >>>> >>> >>> No. Mediawiki's syntax is a pile of stinking something. There is not >>> even a formal syntax defined; the reference is MW's parser. >>> >> >> This is true, however no one is forcing us to use all the capabilities of >> MW. Just the basic syntax should be enough. >> >> >> You have to use HTML tags inside the markup to make literal text even! >>> >> >> (These aren't really HTML; these are wikitext tags that are sometimes the >> same as HTML tags.) And why is that necessarily a bad thing? As I said, I >> find: >> >> >> <source lang=php> >> <? echo "Hello world!"; >> </source> >> >> more readable than: >> >> ``` >> <? echo "Hello world!"; >> ``` >> > > > > -- > *---------------------------------------------------------* > * Kinn Coelho Julião* > * * > * kinncj.com.br* > *---------------------------------------------------------* >