From: "Sébastien Delafond" <sdelafond@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [wish] also provide documentation for contrib
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:11:10 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121018100934.177@usenet.piggo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 201210121103.31473.thomas@koch.ro
On 2012-10-12, Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-18 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-07 17:01 [wish] also provide documentation for contrib Thomas Koch
2012-10-07 18:06 ` cberry
2012-10-12 9:03 ` Thomas Koch
2012-10-18 8:11 ` Sébastien Delafond [this message]
2012-10-27 8:54 ` Bastien
2012-10-29 14:14 ` Sébastien Delafond
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