[asterisk-dev] doc/ -> wiki.asterisk.org

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 11/01/2010 01:52 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> As you have probably seen by now, there is a new project wiki available:
> 
>     http://wiki.asterisk.org
> 
> This wiki was originally created to host documentation for the Asterisk
> SCF project.  We then realized that it would be very valuable to host
> all of our Asterisk documentation there, as well.  At this point,
> everything from the doc/ directory (from Asterisk 1.8) has been imported
> into the wiki.  In addition, we have created a tool that syncs the XML
> based documentation from the Asterisk source with the wiki
> (applications, functions, AMI actions, AGI commands).
> 
> Now that the wiki has been made available, I would like to strip most of
> the documentation from the doc/ directory in favor of the wiki.  It does
> not make sense to have the documentation in more than one place.  The
> wiki supports exporting the documentation as a PDF, so we can still
> include the docs in a tarball.
> 
> Before I go and start ripping files out of the source tree, I wanted to
> post this to give people an opportunity to ask questions or provide
> feedback.

+1 from me; having the docs on the wiki will mean that readers will also
see comments attached to them and will see the most up-to-date version.

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