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

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Tue Mar 22 21:34:56 UTC 2005


timeless wrote:
> or graveyard. i don't have much experience with wikis (or blogs), but 
> what i have seen is that figuring out what's changed and worth looking 
> at is non trivial, and not better than using bonsai on cvs or a decent 
> query of bugzilla/bu.gmail.

That's certainly a concern. I too have seen many unnavigable 
spaghetti-wikis.

>> Approval from any of the reviewers would mean taking the changes from 
>> wiki and putting them back to the docbook sources, which will be the 
>> only "official" documentation.
> 
> lots of additional work....

Yes, this does seem like the worst of both worlds.

Gerv



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