Woke up this morning to fins a request about redesigning the docs for our product into HTML. Uh-oh. The docs are DocBook, and there’s an XSLT style sheet that transforms them to html suitable for shipping to a customer (and publishing to the web, and printing).
And the person assigned to it…well, if G thinks E doesn’t have anything better to do…uh-oh. Sure, there’s supposedly a lot of work coming, but this screams busy work.
These docs have been in this same layout for almost a year. Has the head designer really just noticed them (and the layout of the setup program)? Or is this, as I suspect, busy work? We’ve had a lot of “busy” work lately (and I’m not even sure I’ll make my minimum bill-ables this month), and this just worries me even more.
Damn shame I never got a callback about th oracle/java thing @ GSK, and that the job I’m waiting on an offer from hasn’t made it yet.
or simplifying the product and its dependencies to not require DocBook. Maybe they decided the printing aspect wasn’t worth the effort, and figure it might as well be done now before they get busy again. Doesn’t have to be another sign of the end times.