Re: About wiki.netbsd.org

[Joel Carnat <joel%carnat.net@localhost>]

CVS has no public write access but changes can publically be asked via
send-pr. Dealing with the Wiki the same way (for sanity purpose)
doesn't look that strange..

Quoting Wikipedia's definition of Wiki : A wiki (pronounced /
CVS has no public write access but changes can publically be asked via
send-pr. Dealing with the Wiki the same way (for sanity purpose) doesn't
look that strange..
Quoting Wikipedia's definition of Wiki : A wiki (pronounced /Ë?wɪki/ WIK-ee)
is a website that allows the easy[1] creation and editing of any number
of interlinked web pages via a web browserusing a simplified markup
language or aWYSIWYG text editor.
Nothing here claims it must be public and scrambled by everybody ;-)
--Mail Different
Le 17 déc. 2009 à 12:12, "Adam Hoka" <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost> a écrit 
:

  I think I'm going to hurt your feelings, so I want to say sorry
  beforehand.

  On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Amitai Schlair 
<schmonz%schmonz.com@localhost>
  wrote:

    On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>
    wrote:

      Looks to me like someone just wanted to have this wiki,
      working on an

      agenda, an ignoring what is already there.

    Marc, I respect your need to hold an opinion and to express that

    opinion. It's obviously a very strong need in your case, since
    you've

    managed to hold and express a variety of differing opinions on
    this

    topic alone. What you've said above isn't the most hurtful of
    them

    (that one came by private mail some months ago), but it's
    certainly a

    polarity change from the last. More to the point, it's false, as
    you

    well know. If this criticism of yours were careful and true,
    that'd

    far outweigh any potential hurt feelings. But it isn't, so the
    net

    effect is that you seem like a jerk. I doubt that's how you mean
    to

    come across. So I'd like to ask you -- speaking purely for
    myself, a

    person with some emotion invested in the wiki along with time and

    effort -- to balance your need to be seen having an opinion with
    the

    facts of the wiki development process you've been privy to all
    along

    and then, in turn, with the needs of the Project.

  Sorry, but he got a point, like it or not.

    Everyone else: I'm happy there is interest in the state of
    NetBSD's

    web sites in general and wiki.netbsd.org in particular. The
    latter,

    while not hidden from view, needs more work before it'll be ready
    for

    public consumption. That's why we haven't made any sort of public

    announcement: it's not ready yet. Providing an easy way for

    non-developers to contribute to the wiki has become a high
    priority.

  I see only a few useful articles, most of them are todo lists.
  I wanted to add stuff, but I gave up finding out how to create a new
  page
  after looking trough all of the chaotic options on the page and gave
  up.
  How do you expect us to add content this way?
  The page is totally unorganised (which should be the strength of a
  wiki),
  but we can work on it I guess by constructing a proper start page
  with
  links to major topics. Thats something I volunteer to help with.

    wiki.n.o was not originally intended to be a replacement for

    wiki.netbsd.se, but it's becoming clear that we can and should
    aim for

    that target. Help, as always, is appreciated.

  Maybe we could just start migrating The Guide to the wiki and use it
  as
  an easy to edit documentation source (something we currently lack and
  make
  our docs lag behind reality) so none of your efforts are going to
  waste?

  Again, sorry if i was operating in asshole mode.

  Cheers,
  Adam