[Asterisk-doc] Is the project dead?

[Jim Van Meggelen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Madsen [mailto:asterisk.leif.madsen at gmail.com] 
> Sent: April 21, 2006 8:33 AM
> To: Discussions regarding The Asterisk Documentation Project
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-doc] Is the project dead?
> 
> On 4/21/06, Steve Kennedy <steve-asterisk at gbnet.net> wrote:
> > > On thing that is certain is that the docs project could use some 
> > > fresh ideas, so we would encourage anyone who has a desire to 
> > > contribute to get involved.
> >
> > If I can help in some way, let me know.
> >
> > Unfortunately without decent documentation Asterisk will 
> always be a 
> > "techie toy", and I don't mean any disrespect when saying 
> that to all 
> > the hard works that's been done.
> 
> I'm looking forward to seeing the PHP-style documentation 
> project that is being started by Peter Beckman -- I think 
> once a framework is up and running, we focus our time and 
> efforts on that because then you can just pick a section and 
> work on it without being really dedicated to writing a whole 
> chapter like in our previous efforts with the Volumes.
> 
> I believe it'll make the whole documentation process a lot 
> more sane and manageable -- but only time will tell I suppose.

One thing I would caution against is making this turn into too much of a
Wiki. Not because wikis are bad--to the contrary, we already have an
excellent wiki, and do not want to compete with it. What we had originally
envisioned was a volume of books on various topics, from installation to
low-level debugging. Which books got written would be determined by what
talent we could attract, and we would offer editorial assistance as part of
the project (one of the challenges of the wiki is that it is so chock-full
of knowledge it's hard to know what is relevant or current). For the docs
project, we thought it would be good to be more focused--to complement the
wiki.

Jim

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