From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien?= Delafond Subject: Re: [wish] also provide documentation for contrib Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <20121018100934.177@usenet.piggo.com> References: <201210071901.43527.thomas@koch.ro> <87ipam6tt3.fsf@tajo.ucsd.edu> <201210121103.31473.thomas@koch.ro> Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOlCc-0005g3-Co for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:11:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOlCT-00033w-5J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:11:38 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOlCS-00033s-Uv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:11:29 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TOlCW-0001Ch-2J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:11:32 +0200 Received: from 74.123.29.134 ([74.123.29.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:11:32 +0200 Received: from sdelafond by 74.123.29.134 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:11:32 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2012-10-12, Thomas Koch wrote: > I know that org-drill has its own webpage with good > documentation. The point is, that the Debian maintainer (or Fedora, > Gentoo, ...) just takes the org- mode tarball and packages > everything found in there. It would be an extra burden for the > maintainer to go out to every single contrib site and somehow add > the documentation in the package. > > It would be much easier IMHO, if the org-mode developers would not > only distribute the code of contribs but also their documentation. I > would even say that distributing code without documentation is kind > of a bug. > > It would even be an extra advantage, if you could encourage the > contrib developers to provide documentation in info format. As the Debian maintainer for org-mode, I cannot agree more with Thomas: since contrib is *distributed* in the regular org-mode tarball, its documentation should be found in there as well. Cheers, --SD