docs in a wiki [was Re: making review/bug filing optional for some docs changes]

[Luis Villa]

Slightly OT from the developing flame war :) Why not put all the docs
in a wiki, leave it open, make sure someone is at least trying to
review the (probably low traffic) commits /after they happen/, and
just have a script to pull docs off the wiki and into the tarball for
the release?

Hula is using this approach:
http://www.hula-project.org/Hula_Server

and so far  by all accounts it is working well for them.

Luis


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:35:35 +0000, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote:
> Shane H. W. Travis wrote:
> > Myk asked my permission before he put this log up, specifically because of
> > this comment. I asked him if he thought that it would cause controversy and
> > detract from the main point he was making, and he said that he did not think
> > it would. I wasn't sure, but I said to go ahead.
> >
> > I wish his hopes had been right, and not my fears.
> 
> I don't mean to cause controversy, but surely you expected me to ask
> about it? It gives the impression that you and others think that if some
> people are trusted to update the docs without review, then I shouldn't
> be one of those people. I think it's reasonable to ask why.
> 
> >>I seem to remember making a suggestion almost exactly like Myk's - that
> >>people (specifically me, but it could have been anyone) be allowed to do
> >>documentation whackage without review.
> >
> > ... and how was it received?
> 
> Badly. :-)
> 
> > Memory says that it was not looked on as a
> > favourable idea. I know that my reasons for opposition were philosophical
> > and not personal (as they are this time with Myk's proposal) but my
> > recollection is that some specific personal points came up during the
> > discussion, which was the basis of the above comment. If my memory is
> > faulty, I apologize.
> 
> I don't remember any specific personal points. I had a discussion with
> Dave about some confusion over a previous docs update I did, but I can't
> remember him ever asserting that the *content* I added was bad, just the
> way I added it. And that's precisely what my proposal intended to
> clarify. But mayve I've misremembered too.
> 
> Gerv
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