On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:09:35 -0300 Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula danilo.cesar@collabora.co.uk wrote:
Did you find time to take a look on this?
No. Just when I thought things couldn't get crazier, my laptop died.
https://plus.google.com/+JonathanCorbet/posts/FBHp48dPb95
What spare time I had has been dedicated to recovering from that in time to give my talk next week.
I understand that there's some discussion behind the curtains regarding the markdown support, but the cross-reference-hyperlink patch is also in the same patch series. It doesn't change any text in the docbook unless there's really a cross-reference link to it. Different from the markdown support (when people start to use markdown to write docs it will be hard to go back), the cross-link stuff doesn't require/create any change to current documentation, it is pretty safe to use.
Would you mind to share your plans about this?
No behind-the-curtains discussions happening, or, let's say, if there are, I've not been invited either.
I'd like to get back to the cross-reference stuff. Last I tried, it failed while building the media docs; have you been able to look at that?
Longer term, as you may know from the kernel summit discussions, I'd really like to get rid of a lot of the XML gunk and put in something more straightforward, be it based on Markdown or something else. Doing that, however, requires that I find the time to implement something that's convincingly better. It may happen soon, but I sure can't guarantee it.
Meanwhile, I think it would be a horrible mistake to delay useful work because I have a gleam in my eye to do something different one of these years, so I'll not do that. I fully expect to merge all of the stuff you've done, I just need to have a good look at it and test it out a bit. As I said before, I can't promise that for the 4.3 merge window, but I'll try.
Apologies,
jon