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Aiming for something you can easily use quickly, or send to less techy friends or parents to run.
Eg. in the heavily regulated airline industry, Framemaker still persists as standard. Changes are typically made against a PDF as comments (handwritten or PDF annotations), attached to a paper "Manual Change Request" form and signed by manual owner and passed to a Tech Writer to replicate the change in Framemaker. Turnarounds in order of months are incurred, and where the regulator is involved, I have seen years.
A Git-style version control workflow would work well: - allowing collaboration - change documentation and approval is built in (even better if regulator can use it) - publishing smaller amendments while larger ones develop - reuse modules across manuals (eg. org charts)
However, uptake will occur when the learning curve is reduced...such as a well designed web UI
Cool script, it would definitely be useful to support your "Install all firefoxes script", possibly in a collapsable developers section.
Good ideas. I'll definitely be adding links/descriptions if the site gets any sort of traction.