On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:49:58PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote: > http://fvwmwiki.xteddy.org/fvwmwiki
Yay! > It's no longer using MoinMoin anymore, since this just didn't scale at all > between versioned upgrades whatosever. Instead, I've gone with using > ikiwiki [1], which will hopefully ease maintenance a little. Oh yes, ikiwiki is great! I use it myself (and have written plugins for it). > Of course, because this wiki is backed by a VCS, you can also checkout and > push anonymously using Git, which means the ability to edit/create markdown > pages using your favourite $EDITOR as well. Hence: > > cd && git clone git://fvwmwiki.xteddy.org/srv/git/fvwmwiki.git > Ought to get you started. This also allows for anonymous push access as > well. I've enabled this for a few reasons: > > * I know from personal experience how annoying it is to edit wiki pages > directly in a browser. > * Serious contributors are likely going to want to take the time to make > their pages as good as possible, which isn't likely by editing text > directly in a browser. > > However, I would ask to be careful here -- my domain, xteddy.org, of which > fvwmwiki.xteddy.org is obviously hosted from, is only a tiny VM instance > from bytemark -- it only has 150MB RAM. It's fine for persistant IRC > sessions, and a webserver, but if I suddenly find that there's been several > anonymous checkouts spamming the wiki to death, I will withdraw anonymous > SSH access, and editing of the wiki will only be avaiable via the browser > instead. Have you considered mirroring the git repository on github? (http://github.com) That could ease the load on xteddy.org for git checkouts. > This is a great way to contribute to FVWM, especially if you're not a > programmer, and want to turn your hand to improving documentation, etc. > Where I was largely motivated before from the old wiki to structure it well, > my time is less and less likely to be spent on this one (as I am > concentrating more and more on trying to make FVWM 2.5.X stable!) So here's > some random tasks for would-be contributors to consider: > > * Styling of the wiki. What do you have in mind? Just the CSS, or changing the page.tmpl template also? > * Coming up with a defined structure for it. The initial structure, judging by the front page, is this: * newtofvwm * modules * configs * decors * cookbook * testimonials That looks reasonable to start with. > * Implementing page templates for known areas where bulk-contributions are > likely (c.f. writing pages to describe FVWM-modules, Style commands, > user-configs, etc). (nods) Good idea. Not sure what the content of those should be exactly, but good idea. > * Amalgamating other sources of FVWM info to one reference point on the > wiki. (nods) > If anyone is seriously going to do this, would they let me know so we can > discuss it? Otherwise there's a serious chance for overlap from myself and > other contributors. I'd be interested in helping with the styling, if that's okay. Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.org> / \ | \_.--.*/ | <http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/> v | <http://kerravonsen.redbubble.com/> ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe
