Bugzilla's documentation

[Byron Jones]

Gervase Markham wrote:
> Bugzilla's documentation has stagnated.
[snip]
> 0) Do you agree with my initial assertion that our docs have stagnated?
yes
> 1) Do you agree with my diagnosis of the problem?
yes
> 2) What do you think of my proposed SCM-backed-wiki solution?
no.

> We could just say "hey, move it all to the wiki". However, IMO we also
> don't want to lose the very useful ability to have frozen versions of
> the documentation for each release:
> http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/
> AIUI, that would be hard to do on a standard MediaWiki like
> wiki.mozilla.org.
what's wrong with having different namespaces:
   http://wiki.bugzilla.org/docs/4.0/en/html/
   http://wiki.bugzilla.org/docs/4.2/en/html/

there are many mediawiki extensions which will allow us to restrict 
editing of pages once we want to freeze the docs for a version.


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