[darcs-devel] state of the manual
Simon Michael
simon at joyful.com
Wed Mar 22 15:47:35 UTC 2017
Hi Guillaume, thanks for the update and new repo.
Rewriting would be quite silly, wouldn't it ? Since the old manual was quite good, and as far as I know the license has never been a problem ?
It seems the darcs manual effectively moved from being maintained in the source, to being maintained in the wiki. That could work, if the wiki gets maintained - seems worth a try.
Your darcs book seems like a separate initiative with new content, is that right ?
> On Mar 22, 2017, at 3:30 PM, Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ganesh, Simon,
>
> I assigned myself the role of Documentation Tsar last year but then
> did not do much, apart from a stub repository (that I just made
> public) at: http://hub.darcs.net/gh/darcs-book
>
> One challenge with writing a manual for Darcs 2.12 is that the old
> manual is under GPL licence. Then, if we want to have a new manual
> under a more permissive license (which I think we want), we need to
> start from stratch again, which is quite a daunting task.
>
> Anyway, the darcs-book repository is now public, anyone can
> participate to it, if you want direct editing priviledges, please let
> me know. Now that I have been prodded, I am probably going to edit it
> further in the following days :-)
>
> Guillaume
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