Re: External Links [Was: New tutorial about DataGrid and DataObject]
| From: | Arnaud Limbourg | Date: | Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:56:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: External Links [Was: New tutorial about DataGrid and DataObject] | ||
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> Tutorials and docs are all dandy and stuff, but if they are not linked
> from the manual then they become somewhat waste of resources, which leads
> to the next point, more often then not we have some nice tutorials out
> there but are not mentioned in the PEAR docs thus making it harder for
> other people to find :/
>
> I know some doc people have been trying to solve this by placing links
> they stumble upon into the manual, but maybe we should not keep this in
> the manual ?
> Maybe we could do something like a "Link" section under each package,
> where there would be some categories, "Resources" "Tutorials" and
> something like that, which could be dynamically added (which would make it
> more user-friendly for none doc people) instead of the waiting for PEAR
> doc to compile.
>
> Now this is just a idea to another approach and I know this topic has been
> discussed but still I think it needs more discussion.
>
> Any comments, flames ?
I first thought about a "related links" section on the package homepage
but then realised that there already is "external package homepage".
Maybe it needs to be shown more prominently ?
Arnaud.