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The easy parts are what make it a selling product. I'd love to see "github for non-developers", that is little more than a markdown-app, with a thin wrapper a
by gen220 6y ago
The easy parts are what make it a selling product.
I'd love to see "github for non-developers", that is little more than a markdown-app, with a thin wrapper around some git server and pandoc.
Most CMSs implement all the hard stuff (version control, document generation) themselves, but exposing some of the "knobs" of pandoc/markdown/git and letting users run amok is kind of all you need to do, imo.
Confluence is kind of like this, but limited to the production of web pages.
- kstrauser 6y agoThe idea had crossed my mind.
- barumi 6y ago> I'd love to see "github for non-developers", that is little more than a markdown-app, with a thin wrapper around some git server and pandoc. Aren't you describing a wiki?
- gen220 6y agoSort of. (See my last sentence in the above sentence, about how “confluence is close”). Wikis are limited to rendering information in a webpage format. The benefit of pandoc is that you can render it in any format you like, with arbitrary filters and styling. So you can display the content in a webpage, but you can also render it into PDFs with full legal headers and footers, and footnotes with links, to be physically printed and mailed to people. It’s a level of abstraction once removed from a wiki.