On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:57:41AM +1000, Jeff Fearn wrote: > On 04/15/2015 11:40 AM, Pete Travis wrote: > > 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. > > You have an example of what happens to un-curated content in the > long term, to mistake the absence of curation as a flaw in the > technology is unfortunate. > > The only way git and CI help you curate is by keeping the number of > contributors low, if you had hundreds of people committing it > wouldn't help you curate their contributions. > > This is why I suggested a stand alone docs wiki, you need to be able > to control publishing to address the real reason wikis fail, > curation. I think I agree with Jeff here -- a Fedora wiki for *contributors* and a Fedora wiki for *users to find docs* don't have to be the same thing. The latter could be curated without taking on the virtually endless problem of dealing with the former. > > Also, infra wants a static site, ie no database backends, to allow > > scaling out with proxies; that rules out a lot of solutions. > > IMHO this is your real fight and where you should spend most of your > energy. > > Docs has to engage with the community and has make contributing > easy, git and CI will not do neither of those things, in fact they > actively work against these two goals. > > Hmm, can you link to this policy? Or to where it's been > communicated? Also... this sounds like a challenge for the infrastructure team. Is this a problem that's unique to Fedora? If not, how do other projects or communities solve it? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
