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Luis Medinas wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:54 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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>>>>Devwiki is effectively inaccesable to non gentoo folks (whether in |
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>>>>access, or in navigating the beast), thus it's a no go. |
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>>>>Any docs generated should be googable imo. |
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>>>We could start a public wiki displaying all herds and projects. It would |
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>>>be great to add some low level docs, herds/project goals, ideas and so. |
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>>>Even the users could be allowed to edit and share information. |
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>>Anything like that will need to be approved by the GDP and a GLEP. |
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>>Creating any sort of public wiki will basically halt the efforts of the |
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>>GDP which I'd rather not do. Not to mention deciding who would be |
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>>monitoring it and such (allocating people's time to it). I'm opposed to |
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>>any public wiki until the GDP states their opinion on it. Its their area |
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>>and I don't want to take it away from them. |
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> Indeed it's GDP area but to expose project goals, status and low level |
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> docs isn't even related with GDP. We can't maintain the high level of |
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> docs like GDP does and it's not even your goal. I think the public wiki |
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> idea will improve the communication between devs and users, add goals |
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> and show the status of projects. IMO GDP can't do much in this area |
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> simply because they don't have much to do about this and they have of |
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> course high level of docs to maintain. |
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I had thought about creating some kind of a site like this, but not |
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necessarily in a wiki form. I don't like the idea of letting users add |
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random docs. There's too much room for error and how do you deal with |
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accountability? There has to be a developer who either will take the |
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time to maintain it or accept responsibility for any errors it may have. |
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I like the idea of having an area for herds to keep track of their |
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internal thing, but I fear it will just end up replacing what the GDP |
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(and our www site) does. Its too easy for them to just start adding docs |
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there instead of on www because its 'too hard' to deal with guidexml. |
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If the issue here is guidexml, lets figure out the problem. We need to |
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define what exactly is the problem before we decide on an |
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implementation. Is the problem that there's no central place for herds |
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to put updates/goals/etc? Is the problem that there's no easy way for |
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users to submit new docs for people to use? Is the problem that guidexml |
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hampers development time with regard to creating docs and you wish to |
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have a better/easier way to create such docs? |
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Simply saying 'we need a public wiki' is great an all, but I'd rather |
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ask 'What problem(s) does the wiki solve' before we even get farther. |
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There might be better ways to solving the problem other than putting up |
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a wiki. |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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