Re: [Firebird-docs] Re: Docs on the go

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi Nigel,

> If you received by attachments, please suggest subject areas to
> concentrate on, and I'll get working.

How about the new security features in 1.5 ? (just an idea)

The Firebird Quick Start Guide has already been donated to the project
and will be bundled with all future releases. It's also available for
online browsing. This is intended to be *the* starting point for new
users; I don't think it makes much sense to have other general
"getting started" type docs floating around.

After the QSG is fully converted to 1.5 (about 75% done now) the
contents of IBPhoenix' "Using Firebird" will also be phased into
the project.

Back in January I liked the look of your Firefly pages! Too bad they
couldn't stay online. But let's suppose you can host them somewhere
else, then we're working on at least three parallel Firebird doc
systems:

- The DocBook-based documentation within the Firebird project;
- Lester's Wiki;
- Your Firefly pages.

I'm not saying this is bad, but will we have enough input for all
three to be viable? Anyway, let's all keep in touch via this list and
avoid too much overlap, especially when it comes to big docs that take
a lot of time to write and maintain.

BTW, since June we can produce not only HTML, but also decent-looking
PDF from our DocBook sources. See
  http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=doc
for an overview of what we've got, including the QSG.


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog