Am Samstag, 12. November 2005 10:04 schrieb Gour:
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I'd like that we keep the present css style of the site (color theme) which I find very nice and appealing,
The font size is way too small!
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iii) forum pro) - provides ability to have sticky posts for FAQ, howtos, etc. - searchable archives - one can always jump in the thread by replying to appropriate post (even much later than original post is posted) - ability to have email notification when some replies are posted
cons) - cumbersome usage - no ability to choose own communication software
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The potential of newsgroup was also mentioned - creating of compl.lang.haskell, but I won't comment of it considering that the newsgroup cannot be one & all solution, and, otoh, does not, imho, provide any substantial advantage over the other three forms (we already have lists & irc, and forums come 'for free' with CMS).
As long as newsgroups are not substantially worse than the three other communication forms, you should list them. Otherwise you could also leave out mailing lists or, ehm, forums with the same justification.
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f) enhancing & opening GHC manual
Besides my vote for simple authoring tool for working on GHC manual, Drupal offers so called 'Collaborative Book' (http://drupal.org/node/284) feature which can even export to DocBook XML in case we want to preserve its format.
The question is how the DocBook documents created by Drupal look. You can also export Word documents as HTML but as far as I know this is not advisable. The main advantage of DocBook is that it uses truely logical markup. Logical markup is something we should keep under all circumstances.
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By the way, is Drupal Free/Open Source Software?
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Best wishes, Wolfgang