[Phpmyadmin-devel] The format of the new documentation.

Cato Auestad bleakgadfly at fsfe.org
Tue Apr 6 14:21:25 CEST 2010


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Michal Čihař <michal at cihar.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Dne Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:36:00 -0400
> Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
>
> > Yes, but this will be difficult to determine. Lots of users are running
> > "historical" servers. We can probably remove some entries but remember
> > that in old forum posts we referred to FAQ # and people are still
> > finding those posts.
>
> Well but each phpMyAdmin package contains documentation matching the
> environment. We currently have requirements for PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5,
> what is not something you could call historical.
>
> > Also, changing the contents is one thing; changing the format is another.
>
> It definitely is, on the other side when there will be bigger changes
> in documentation, it's better to choose more flexible format, which
> will allow us for example to provide manual in PDF format.
>
> > I have no experience with Texinfo. Would it adapt easily to our Pootle
> > translation server?
>
> Yes, it should work with Po4a as well as our existing HTML
> documentation (but I have not tested it so far).
>

I have never tested Po4a and the only dealings I have had with Pootle is on
the Tor Project translation website.
I can try it out and see how it works with Texinfo, but I am not sure how
you guys want to try and migrate your current
documentation/FAQ. I had in mind making a more comprehensive documentation,
more or less from scratch.

I am also not sure how your current translations interact with your current
documentation/FAQ.

Cato.

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