Draft of a minimalist MacPorts Guide

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Hi Mark!

	I've only managed to skim over your draft but I think it seems  
pretty good to begin with, kudos!

	Even though the existing guide is pretty outdated in some aspects, I  
wouldn't know where to stand between this draft of yours and our  
existing sources (there is some good material there!), haven't really  
had the time to do any serious comparisons. I'd love it if you could  
team up with Maun Suang and Brian Campbell, who've been actively  
contributing to documentation lately, and come up with a plan to  
rewrite as much as you can while keeping the best of both.

	Doing it in docbook format would be sweet, we already have automated  
guide regen straight off svn sources going on Daniel Luke's box,  
meaning that whatever we commit to the doc/ svn dir is reflected on  
the regen'd html files automagically, no fuss! (what's the regen  
periodicity, Daniel?). We also have a temporary location for the  
guide up at Daniel's site (http://geeklair.net/macports_guide/), but  
I am coordinating with Kevin Van Vechten a move to MacOSForge servers  
with a static link to it and automated uploads, this time for real.  
We're are also working on a mechanism to grant wiki write access to  
documentation contributors who do not yet have full svn write access,  
so that we can broaden our contributors base in a  much faster and  
way. I'll get back to everybody once all this is in place, though.

	So as you can see, we already have this ball rolling with revived  
energies, so I'd really love it if you could team up and work people  
like Maun Suang and Brian (and any other willing to dedicate some  
time to this, most welcome!), providing your new draft as a base for  
a major guide redesign and refresh.

	Again, kudos for this great effort! Regards,...


-jmpp


On Jul 5, 2007, at 4:10 PM, markd at macports.org wrote:

> I think the structure of the original guide is fundamentally  
> flawed.  I
> cooked up a draft of a minimalist approach.  What do y'all think?
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/duling/macports/guide.html
>
> I used the stylesheet from another document I had handy, so don't  
> mind the
> format or the fact that it isn't chunked.  The colors and text of the
> original guide make it look more professional I think but I didn't  
> have
> time to mess with the stylesheet, especially since I don't know if  
> people
> will really like this approach anyway.
>
> Mark
>
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