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[gtk-list] Re: Documenting GTK

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn Amundson)
Sun Jul 20 02:16:38 1997

From: Shawn Amundson <amundson@cs.umn.edu>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 01:15:56 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970719130204.23741A-100000@cascadia.a42.com> from "Jay Painter" at Jul 19, 97 01:18:45 pm
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Words Of Jay Painter:
>
>I have been thinking about writing a set of CGI scripts which would allow
>us to document GTK calls on the web.  The general idea is that there would
>be a web page that you could search for a gtk function on, then edit and
>submit the documentation for the call right there.  The changes/additions
>would appear immeadiately on the web site.
>
>My hope is that this would take less coordination than the tekinfo
>documents, and would make it more reasonable for people to contribute
>small amounts of documentation.
>
>Comments?
>

Excellent idea.

You should restrict access by username/password and perhaps 
work in RCS to control the revisions. 

Perhaps there is interest in having the FAQ maintained the
same way?  

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Shawn T. Amundson		University of Minnesota
Systems Administration	 	Computer Science System Staff
amundson@cs.umn.edu	  	http://www.cs.umn.edu/~amundson/     	

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