On 04/14/2015 06:31 PM, Jeff Fearn wrote: > On 04/15/2015 09:38 AM, Pete Travis wrote: > > We've talked about it a lot lately, and there's a general consensus th > at > > making room for those smaller chunks would both enable more contributo > rs > > and better target Fedora's user base. > > IMO the main problem you face is the heavy start up cost for > contributing. Using git and CI is not substantially less cumbersome for > contributors than the current solution. While it may attract a few more > people like the current contributors, it won't attract new classes of > contributors. > > You need to make it easy for people to contribute content, and in this > day and age that means a web interface; just one that doesn't suck. > > What you need is a well curated web-based work flow. > > Most wikis can handle multi-page content, that's your long articles, and > a small article is just single page. > > Most wikis have a publishing process so you can vet/QA stuff before > publishing. > > Most wikis have a translation work flow. > > Most wikis allow you to import/cut-n-paste content in several flavors of > markup. So if some people want to write markdown et.al. offline then > paste it in the web-ui that's supported. > > Most wikis are easy to theme and extend. > > Most wikis have an active community that can help you develop any > missing features. > > IMO what you need is a docs wiki that you can configure with your > publishing process as you see fit. > > I don't have a vote for a specific wiki as I haven't done a comparison > of publishing work flows in a long time. > > Did I mention, all IMO., no offense intended! :) > > Cheers, Jeff. > No offense perceived :) A wiki was discussed, probably more than once. The general feeling, as I recall, is that it would pose a quality control problem. We already have a pretty good demonstration of what happens to a wiki in the long term. Also, infra wants a static site, ie no database backends, to allow scaling out with proxies; that rules out a lot of solutions. --Pete -- -- Pete -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
