On 9 March 2016 at 14:37, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9 March 2016 at 12:24, Dylan Combs <dylan.combs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is there something wrong with a moderated wiki that I'm missing? Sorry - I >> don't mean to be a pest here, and I had kinda given up on the thread, but >> it's still kickin', it seems. >> >> A git workflow doesn't strike me as as bad, necessarily, but man it's gotta >> be incredibly simple and obvious how to participate. If it's simply: >> >> 1) Sign up for an account / Log in >> 2) Use a browser to navigate to the page/section in need of modification. >> 3) Press a button to enter composition mode in the browser. >> 4) Write content in the browser. >> 5) Press a button to submit pull request from the browser. >> >> Then it seems right to me. In fact, a git style system would probably >> provide a nice way to share logins with ask.fedoraproject and/or karma, >> badges, and awards for content (which I think is crucial for elevating user >> privileges based on merit and whatnot). If it's more complicated than the >> above, I'm back to the moderated wiki suggestion. If there's a client-side >> application involved that isn't the browser and is somehow so simple and >> accessible that it can't possibly be a barrier to entry, that'd probably be >> ok, too. >> > > As a point of information, that's pretty much github's editing of > markdown files, though generally you need to > 1.5) Create your own fork. > > When saving you have the options: > Commit directly to the master branch > Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request. (Learn > more about pull requests.) > > I've just tried on a local gitlab install and it similarly offers to > create merge requests if editing a fork (but it doesn't have github's > wysiwyg markdown editing, just raw text, maybe there's a plugin). > ...acutally, gitlab, if you don't have commit privileges on a project and try to edit a file, it will fork for you. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
