[ZDP] Documentation & Zbook

Rik Hoekstra hoekstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:32:34 +0100


Dody Gunawinata wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >
> > I do not want to discourage anything nor to criticize anyone. The problem
> > with the ZDP initiative is that about a dozen schemes more or less like this
> > were proposed and discussed, but that only Tom Deprez ever got any further.
> > There have been contacts with the open source document writers group, but I
> > (at least) do not know what came from that. Stephan Richter started the
> > documentation project and the faq tool, but it also seems to be a bit lost
> > by now.
> >
> 
> ZDP is not well known yet. For me, let's concentrate on ZBooks and plan
> for this. Then we can advertise
> for more writers. Get the framework right first.
> 
> > Moreover, it is not clear what DC will contribute, what parts of the
> > documentations they will not cover and what the ZDP should do.
> >
> Assume the DC will do nothing. Then we don't have to worry about waiting
> from DC, and designed
> ZBooks to our needs, the user.
> 
> > If I may propose anything: let's pick a scheme, divide tasks, 'appoint'
> > owners for a pieces and START WRITING.
> >
> 
> ZBook and that's it. When it runs well, we can talk again about other
> initiative.
> 
> First urgent task :
> 
> - Table of contents for ZBook.

Ok, what about the tables of content as they were proposed in 

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-May/000262.html
or
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-May/000184.html

Rik