discuss: Linux documentation wiki
Subject:
Re: Linux documentation wiki
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
12 Jan 2002 21:46:18 -0000
Message-Id: <20020112223751.GB2014@lupercalia.net>
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:57:58PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:49:50AM -0500, Paul Jones wrote:
> > we are already running a wiki for our group work here at ibiblio. for
> > small group work with a lot of trust to underpin it, wikis are great. i
> > think it would be okay for some documentation work too. the cvs's level of
> > control are wonderful for highly involved authors; wiki's looseness is
> > better for casual editors and authors.
>
> The Distributions-HOWTO is perfect for the more casual model. I mean,
> there really isn't a lot of point in me asking for CVS access to it for
> the sake of changing a couple of lines every few months. On the other
> hand, I can quite easily make minor changes to the distributions I know
> about (Debian, possibly Corel and Progeny) with a minimum of hassle. As
> long as somebody's paying attention to make sure it isn't abused, it
> should work well.
I think the solution there is to 1) have trusted people whose changes
don't need review and 2) have the maintainer do a cvs diff (or diff,
whichever) and do the commit themselves.
This is turning into a really cool idea, and it doesn't even seem all
that hard to implement. Thanks for the great idea Martin!
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David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
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