Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> I can try to tackle a perlpodstyle documentation page, which I can >>> either ship with podlators or hand off to the Perl core team as makes >>> the most sense. I'm somewhat handicapped by not having time to read >>> perl5-porters, although I do read pod-people. > >> Maybe so we can rapidly get chunks of information in there some sort of >> wiki? Some sort of podwiki? >> http://www.daemon.de/PodWiki > > I personally would prefer not to do text editing in a web browser. I'd be > happy to use a wiki such as ikiwiki where I can check out the pages with a > real revision control system and edit them with my regular editor, though. This might make you happy. I know it makes me happy. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 > However, before going down that path, I wonder if such a document might be > only a minor modification of what's in the pod2man man page now, under the > NOTES section. It's fairly easy for me to start with that and then add > the requirements for NAME and mail the results (to pod-people? > perl5-porters?) and invite comment. Yep, that would be a good place to start. Rather than mail it, I'd just throw it into version control somewhere. Patch-by-mail is tedious at best, horrible when it comes to documentation. Throw it up on github or something. -- The past has a vote, but not a veto. -- Mordecai M. KaplanThread Previous