Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

James Cammarata jimi at sngx.net
Thu Dec 22 15:50:14 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:49 AM, David Lee <David.Lee at ecmwf.int> wrote:
> Greg Swift wrote:
>>
>> So... when I was redoing the web interface one of the things I had in my
>> mind was that it would be nice if there was more on the "welcome" page than
>> just a welcome.  My thought was to have a generic description of the left
>> hand menu items, but since you are working on this document, it might be
>> kind of kewl if the simple start here was replicated in the web ui.  Even if
>> the links just point back to the online documentation?
>> [...]
>
>
> Regarding: "Even if the links just point back to the online documentation?"
>
> It's probably not that simple.  At many sites the cobbler (web) server may
> be firewalled off from the Internet.  So the documentation would need to be
> locally available.
>
> Given that (in the Redhat world, at least), we already have RPMs for
> "cobbler" and "cobbler-web", perhaps there should also be an RPM
> "cobbler-docs".  The source of its data would include pages (or transformed
> pages) from the wiki; the installed destination of its data would be
> appropriate points in the system's own man pages, info pages, and website.
>  (That, of course, is a very high-level, blue-sky, hand-wavy, sketchy
> overview, deliberately avoiding fine detail at this stage.)

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