[Mailman-Developers] preferred documentation format, sources for documentation in admin/www

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Jan 6 03:03:39 CET 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:57 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:

> I'd like to document my patch for making Mailman OpenPGP and S/MIME
> aware ( http://non-gnu.uvt.nl/pub/mailman/ ).  I'd like this
> documentation to integrate nicely with the official Mailman
> documenation.  What is the preferred format for creating documentation?
> 
> I believe it's LaTeX.  However, the sources for
> mailman-{admin,install,member}.{ps,pdf,txt} are neither in
> cvs/sf/mailman/mailman/admin/www nor in mailman-2.1.7.tgz .  It'd help
> me if these sources got published somewhere.

LaTeX is the preferred format for the documentation source.  We process
our .tex files with the mkhowto program from the Python distribution.
These rules apply for Mailman too:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/doc/doc.html

The source files are available in CVS, here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailman/mailman/doc/?only_with_tag=Release_2_1-maint

Cheers,
-Barry

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