Re: doc status report

On Mon Aug 07, 2006 at 01:4743PM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote: > Martin Jansen wrote: > > >On Sun Aug 06, 2006 at 09:0013PM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote: > >>While working on the MDB2 docs I realized that users have no way of > >>knowing about the improvements to the documentation of the various > >>packages unless they are also subscribed to this list. Is there anything > >>we can do about that? > >> > >>Not sure how difficult it would be for example to generate a mail with > >>all pages that have changed or have been added at the end of the doc > >>generation and send it off to pear-general. > > > >I think the easiest solution would be to maintain a special page in the > >manual where authors can (manually!) add a short text when they have > >added a significant improvement to the manual. > > Yeah, I starting to think the same. We could then send out a weekly > "diff" (essentially all added lines) to pear-general. If we go this route, I suggest we keep this page out of the manual and stick it in pearweb/. This way we can more easily generate those mails and even an RSS feed. The manual is slightly "too" static for such purposes. - Martin