Thursday January 8, 2009
2009: Documentation 2.0
2009 will be interesting. This is the last entry of this series of posts, about my thoughts/wishes about technological improvements in 2009. Previous entries: Really Rich Internet Applications, Easy JavaScript for Everyone, Databases and Persistence, Distributed Version Control.
Wiki-based documentation will become the single source for documentation in 2009. While wikis have been great for collaboratively created documentation ever since, the problem is that they are not very well export their contents to other formats in order to ship documentation as printed books or integrated online help. DocBook export is needed here.
I have requested this[1] for my favourite wiki[2] back in 2004 with no luck. However, this year we will ship a solution[3] for this. The Scroll Wiki Exporter for Confluence lets wiki-users export their documentation from trees of wiki pages to DocBook and PDF. Eventually we will support other output formats, pluggable, themes, and much more.
[1] Feature request for DocBook Export: CONF-762
[2] Atlassian Confluence
[3] Scroll Wiki Exporter
Posted on Jan 8, 2009 at 06:14 (MET) | Permalink | 1 comment
