[syslog-ng] syslog-ng.com upgrade

Nik Ambrosch nik at ambrosch.com
Mon Jul 2 18:48:29 UTC 2018


 i always go for the single-page html as well.  documentation in pdf format
reminds me of the 90s :)


On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Fabien Wernli <wernli at in2p3.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:02:34PM +0200, Gergely Bodnár wrote:
> > - The older syslog-ng Open Source Edition documentation (prior 3.16) is
> > available only in PDF format.
> > - Going forward, only multi-page HTML and PDF versions will be available
> of
> > the Administrator' Guide. Single page guides are no longer offered.
>
> One of the big advantages of syslog-ng over its competitors has always been
> its awesome documentation. Throughout the
> years during which I've been part of the community, many users have
> applaused the quality of the online manual. More precisely, the
> fact that the documentation is versioned is a huge killer feature, and
> immensely useful to assist new users that always use a different
> version than the latest.
>
> PDF integration is still not as fluid in the browser (and search engines),
> and single-page HTML are so much handier to search.
>
> Suffice it to say that this decision is IMHO a big mistake, and I hope
> others will step up to join me in that understatement.
>
>
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