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On 10/06/2013 17:15, Alex Legler wrote: |
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> On 10.06.2013 14:36, Sergey Popov wrote: |
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>> 09.06.2013 18:22, Alex Legler пишет: |
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>>> I'd appreciate some input on below plan to move project pages to the Wiki: |
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>>> |
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>>> Motivation |
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>>> |
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>>> The main motivation is to reduce the contents on the main website, |
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>>> allowing for an easier makeover. Also, the Wiki exposes the contents and |
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>>> an editing capability to more people, allowing for better collaboration. |
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>>> Finally, this is an opportunity for projects to go through the contents |
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>>> in their project spaces and update/remove outdated contents as well |
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>>> Gentoo as a whole to remove orphaned projects. |
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>> Err, i do not want to say that wiki is not suite for this purpose, but |
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>> what's wrong with current situation? Is there something wrong with gorg? |
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> The software is unmaintained, and the website template is next to |
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> unmaintainable. I could go on a bit more about this, but I think these |
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> two points *alone* justify moving away from it. |
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>> Well, it is not always clear how to use some of it's features, but apart |
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>> of that, why we should migrate to wiki? |
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>> |
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>> Just to clear orphaned project pages? |
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> No, I described multiple points. Again: |
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> - Less contents on www.g.o -> we can much more easily relaunch it |
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> - Users can more easily contribute to project documentation |
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> - Update/purge project documentation |
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> - Remove orphaned projects |
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>> Why we can not just have official project pages, maintained as usual |
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>> through gorg and additional info in wiki(if it is needed, for example, |
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>> like we do on Gentoo Qt project page? |
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> In case it wasn't clear enough yet: This is step 1 of n to get rid of |
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> gorg and GuideXML for the website (read: not main docs) aspects of Gentoo. |
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> Running two project page venues increases maintenance instead of |
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> lowering it. I intend to have less work after this change, not more. |
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> Do you have any concerns beyond 'never change a running system'? |
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+1, totally agree.. It's 2013 duh.. |
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