On keeping the docs

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> Am Thursday, den 13.09.2012, 07:03 +1000 schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
>> Just to follow up on the thread about what to do about the howto
>> collection.
>>
>> Many of the docs (particularly the Samba HOWTO) are now a little out of
>> date, and most have not had major revisions in years.
>>
>> However, while we tend to focus on how out of date they are, we forget
>> how little Samba administration changes (or how much we value backwards
>> comparability).  I did chat with Jelmer on this, who reminded me (but
>> didn't get a chance to write to the list) that it is still much easier
>> to fix up old docs than to start from scratch.
>>
>> Therefore, while we won't ship them built in rc1, I think we should at
>> least try and go over and correct the docs, rather than wholesale remove
>> them.
> Thanks for sending mail about that. I indeed hadn't found the time to do
> so.
>
> I'll have a look at getting the docs to build with just waf. That might
> require dropping some of the more fancy features (including smb.conf.5¸
> the index, examples list) but we can always re-add those later.
There shouldn't be any issue in translating Makefile rules to waf
rules in this case, it only question of time for you, me, and Andreas
to get our hands on it. I was planning to dive into documentation for
last few weeks in my free time but got distracted by flu.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy