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Subject: Re: the sad state of our FAQs
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On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 16:53 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> I proposed this previously but got no support from Bruce who is supposed
> to be the FAQ maintainer, and thus I ended up doing nothing.  Therefore
> I now offer to do the job required to move them to XML Docbook and allow
> translatability using xml2po or something similar.

I would like to see us have a single documentation standard though. Our
core docs are still Docbook SGML which is a bit different :( Other than
that, I am all for it.

Joshua D. Drake

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