On 06/10/2016 09:05 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 04:20:06PM +0100, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> (2) any user can edit wiki pages not governed by Projects. Even Project >> pages I'm sure could be updated by means of patches submitted to the >> appropriate team, with some basic follow-up to ensure action. > > Only users with a wiki account. The gentoo wiki/handbook et. al. are > great, but I personally really do not like editing wikis in general. > When I see a clarification or improvement that I could make in gentoo's > docs, I remember that I'd have to: > > * get a wiki account > * use a dumb web editor and (probably) HTML to make a change instead of vim
I edit the wiki every now and then, and use a great extension for Firefox called "It's All Text" which allows you to use any program to edit the text in <textarea> elements. It makes editing much better for me. I'm not sure if Chromium has anything equivalent, but it's something. > * get it approved somehow > > All my enthusiasm vanishes at that point. If gentoo's wiki/docs were, > say, a bunch of markdown files in a git repo somewhere, I would be much > more willing to clone the repo, make a change, and send in a patch. A > wiki and handbook could be auto-generated from this, of course. From an > infra standpoint, this is also simpler than maintaining a wiki. > >> (3) until some enthusiastic sponsors come forward to host/maintain these >> systems, I don't think its fair to overburden the already stretched >> Infra guys (no offence, guys! you're doin a great job). > > Agree. Gentoo is fantastic. > > Alec > -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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