From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:55:04 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141205175504.GC3120@thyrsus.com> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <83r3we2jb9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417802132 21247 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 17:55:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 18:55:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwx69-0001Ad-EF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:55:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51725 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwx68-00088c-Us for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:55:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwx61-00088V-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwx5x-0008Nq-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:56564 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xwx5s-0008Da-Jr; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 56451382BBD; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:55:04 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83r3we2jb9.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178966 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > Until more people start contributing to the docs, it makes very little > sense to me to change the tools, and by that cut the branch on which > we sit, documentation-wise. You have this exactly backwards. Texinfo/info are a barrier that impedes more recruitment of hands to work on documentation. This is one of the reasons they must die. -- Eric S. Raymond