Wiki port of manage docs now up / edit away!

Greg Swift gregswift at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 15:54:50 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 09:50, James Cammarata <jimi at sngx.net> wrote:

> 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.)
>
> +1
>

i thought about that after i sent it, you idea is a good path. +1
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