Re: [as-devel] TLD for the documentation
Sasha_Vasko@osca.state.mo.us
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:38:05 -0500
>On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, David Mihm wrote:
>> One domain is already too much from some people. :)
>Now, if afterdoc.org were more comprehensive -- say, a project to unify
>and "userify" the many HOWTOS, man pages, FAQs, info pages, bits of advice
>on web pages, and common deja news searches into one easy-to-use system,
>_that_ would make an "obvious" top-level domain (i.e. obviously top-level,
>instead of somehow related to another project). I expect it would also get
>you the Nobel peace prize, but that's pretty far off-topic.
That was the idea exactly.
IN our recent conversation with Tigr, I've voiced my long time dream of
publishing complete HTMLized source code with complete crosslinked set of
documentation. Tigr liked it and decided to take a shot at it.
One of the reasons to have separate domain for it is that such a site will
require
awfull lot of maintenance. Also it is rather unclear as to how to organize all
the
wealth of documentation and what documentation to use.
My ideas were to write some sort of script to automatically pull all the
information
off of the distribution and reorganize and HTMLize it. But again - it will need
alot of
work.
IMHO decentralization in this case is a good thing, as we'll get a
stable main site without overloading it with tons of info, that some ppl may
never need
and more in-depth site for extreme folks, which will always be under development
:)
>As I said, don't take my opinion for much.
>A
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