Re: Documentation:Update the INDEX of the documents

From: Yang Hongyang
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 19:48:30 EST


Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:25:08PM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote:
>>> If folks do find the 00-INDEX files useful, my suggestion would be to
>>> make a way of automatically extracting them from the individual files
>>> and/or directories, and then making the 00-INDEX files to be
>>> automatically generated.
>> Sounds like a good idea but How to automatically generate
>> the summaries then?
>
> Well, for text files (including subdirectory's 00-INDEX files) we
> could have a convention which is the first line of the file should be
> a (max 60 characters) one-line summary of the file.
>
> We would probably have to do something special with non-free-form-text
> files, including structured text files like Docbook files. So it's
> not quite so straightforward, but it should be doable.

Yeah,if we do this one-line summary thing,we still have to go through
all these documents.So why not just update the 00-INDEX and then tell
the authors that will add docs to the kernel do the "00-INDEX work"
themselves?

>
> - Ted
>
>


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Regards
Yang Hongyang
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