[Bug 427481] Review Request: documentation-devel - Documentation tool chain

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Summary: Review Request: documentation-devel - Documentation tool chain


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427481





------- Additional Comments From mhideo at redhat.com  2008-01-11 07:20 EST -------
(In reply to comment #38)
> "Default install" is a a fuzzy concept in the bright new world of Fedora spins. 
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins
> 

That's the one! Our target is to create a custom spin for documentation writers,
publishers and syndicators with a series of tools. I am most excited about the
docbot project which is another top level package of -devel. But i need more
time for that one. The command line environment that -devel sets up will suffice
for now.

> If I do a Fedora Documentation Spin, I might very well want to include this
> software out of the box as the functionality it brings is much needed in the
> documentation team which I am part of. I would suggest that naming not be
> dependent on whether it is currently the default in one of the spins we release.
> 
> Again, the software is good and we would very much want it to be part of the
> Fedora 9 release. We only need to agree on a better naming convention to suit
> our guidelines. May I suggest DocsKit?
> 

What I am trying to avoid is a respin of the top level packages that -devel has
created for us in the past. There are 179 top-level projects that reference
-devel in their makefiles for their development. There are 48 owners of these
top level packages we are servicing. Not impossible, but expensive to do. It
will cost about $9k per day and we project a 2 day shutdown for the respin if
everything goes right. But i know something will go wrong, things always do. I
want to minimize risk.

There are a lot of names we could use, I suggest Jeff Fearn's birth-city of
Liverpool to honour his commitment. When we polled the top level package owners,
all hell broke loose and the names kept coming and coming and coming. The
community of use around this -devel package can be very creative and some times
too much creativity can be bad thing.

So Jeff, if you are reading this, will not call it "pants".

- Mike

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