discuss: Wiki questions
Subject:
Re: Wiki questions
From:
Sergiusz Pawlowicz ####@####.####
Date:
13 Jan 2003 12:45:18 -0000
Message-Id: <20030113124506.GB15567@szafa.it-zone.org>
--->[Quoting Erik Moeller ####@####.####
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:36, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
>
> > --->[Quoting Erik Moeller ####@####.####
> >
> > > A better long term modus operandi is to use OpenFacts
> > > for the editing process, and to use LDP/CVS for
> > > selecting trusted revisions of the documents in regular
> > > intervals.
> >
> > Technical question: what to do if a document will be
> > changed in the same time in Wiki and in LDP-CVS? How to
> > resolve conflicts?
>
> Hi Sergiusz,
>
> thanks for your feedback. Since there are no dependencies
> between the two, this would likely only be a temporary
> inconsistency until someone working in one "mode" (wiki vs.
> cvs) adds the new or modified information from the other. As
> I wrote, I think it would be best to eventually have a
> policy on some HOWTOs that they are only to be edited in
> wiki-mode and that CVS is only used to check in trusted
> revisions by the maintainer, but that is a choice that is up
> to the individual authors.
Yeah - and now we have real problem.
I can understand idea of Wiki is delightful. But - only idea.
Wiki has no editing tools, as VI or MS(TM) Word(TM). So
writing or editing documents in Wiki is for me completly
unacceptable.
Imagine that I personally refuse to use Wiki. May I? And now
you have to say: "No. You must use Wiki because we cannot
provide tools to allow editing not in Wiki-mode." And what
about freedom?
Much less important is my personal opinion, that Wiki
(paradoxically) is only seemingly more useful, because I
noticed, that if someone cannot teach himself to use docbook,
he (she) also has nothing interesting to write about
computers...
Of course Wiki is very useful in preparing FAQs (short
questions and answers) and in other fields than computers -
humanities or (no ofence) eg. kitchen recipes.
cheers - Sergiusz
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