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author | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2016-08-08 17:30:58 -0400 |
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committer | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2016-08-08 17:30:58 -0400 |
commit | 1f75ecd9bc47c12a3c1596497dfaa621a2d16103 (patch) | |
tree | f52166c947154730db2723263bb3bdc845ad1249 /doc/README | |
parent | 7be7c02b6d2f1cec295ebacac49b01c75b6038a4 (diff) |
Move old manual to doc/manual, to make it easier to find other documentation.
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diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README deleted file mode 100644 index 8dc0145e..00000000 --- a/doc/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -This directory contains documentation salvaged from https://wiki.rpki.net/. - -The original source format is Trac wiki, but the Trac instance in -question is ailing, some of the plug-ins it uses are obsolete, and -Markdown is more commonly used for this sort of thing these days in -any case, so extracting this from the ailing Wiki seemed advisable. - -The numbered files in this directory were extracted by a Python script -(included). Several kinds of files are present: - -* .wiki files, containing the raw Trac Wiki page text; - -* .md files, resulting from feeding the HTML version of the Wiki pages - into an automated HTML-to-Markdown translator; - -* various graphics formats (.svg, .jpg) holding images which were - used inline in some of the Wiki pages; and - -* .zip files, containing attachments to the Wiki pages. - -In some cases the attachments in the .zip files will be the same as -the image files, but not always. What you see is what there was. - -There are two main problems with this documentation at present: - -1. It's for the old version of the RPKI code (branch old-trunk) rather - than the current version (branch master). - -2. The translation to Markdown almost certainly needs some help from a - human being, what's here is just what html2markdown could do. - -Nevertheless, the content recorded here was a fairly complete manual -at one point, and it would almost certainly be a lot easier to finish -the conversion and bring it up to date than to start over. |