[Bf-docboard] Other projects wiki/sphinx migration

[Campbell Barton]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It would be a disaster giving up on a system that has the freedom and accessibility wiki has. And even stranger - people who complain about it are not the people who provide tech docs?
>
> The user manual project is worrying me a lot, the sphinx system is so unfriendly that hardly no people will contribute to it. It's really awesome to see that Aaron and Campbell work hard on it, but it's barely a community project.
>
> I rather discuss the future of the manual, and move it back to wiki, than giving up on wiki.
>
> -Ton-

This is quite a strange response - Its true that we haven't had great adoption.

On the other hand if you seriously propose to move to a different
system - we should either do this or not (or let others know its being
seriously considered - if it really is???).

For people working on existing manual (and writing translations for
eg) its really a bad message to give some vague hint that the system
will be removed and their work will be lost.