Improving the documentation process

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:05:08PM -0000, Simon Birtwistle wrote:
> > I'd swear that you sound like someone who's getting ready to sell us an
> > automated tool to publish to hosting.  I'm not saying I for one would
> > turn it down.  But would you care to just go ahead and put it on the
> > table so we can look at it and figure out the next steps?
> 
> There's someone on the Zikula team writing a module to pull your XML
> documents from source control and publish them into the CMS for displaying
> to the world.  We're already working on that, in case it hasn't been clear
> previously.  If this isn't useful or needs to change best to let us know
> while the script is still in the early stages.
> 
> Theoretically you simply write your docbook XML, commit it when you're done
> and then log into the CMS and hit publish to update the documents.
> Hopefully there will also be a test option where you can publish in a
> private location for checking while avoiding publishing a part finished
> document to the public at large.

I had read about this module, and just to clarify, I don't want to
throw a spanner/wrench into anyone's works.  I think this sounds just
like what Chris is recommending -- a one-click publish to hosting
solution.  If there are alternate solutions available, happy to see
them.

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