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Re: [O] [wish] also provide documentation for contrib
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Sébastien Delafond |
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Re: [O] [wish] also provide documentation for contrib |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:11:10 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2012-10-12, Thomas Koch <address@hidden> 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