Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>>Q: Ever considered putting the Mandrake RPM Howto (and other policy documents) >>>on the wiki? >>> >>>In http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/PackagingTask there is a >>>section where "policy updates" are being collected. Why not add / merge those >>>into the policy right away, with a special comment added to the change. >>> >>>what do you think? >>> >> >>We should make sure that it's possible to write the howto in WikiSyntax, >>whitout using too much html code. >> > As a matter of fact I started converting the howto this morning. Copy / paste > from one mozilla tab to the other, and then going through the formatting. > > Would it be better to put the howto as one big document, or to split it up into > a number of seperate ones. Any suggestions on how to do the naming of the > seperate ones in WiKi style?
One of the problems (afaik) is that a wiki page cannot be erased without deleting it manually from the server. So you have to have your naming/structure convention well defined before splitting it. There is also no way to merge different pages automatically... Actually, content handling is poor, regarding the existing format handling that wiki provides. I think we should look at wiki plugins. There are plugins to export from wiki to various formats. A goos solution would be to write the howto in the wiki with well defined content/formating rules, then use the wiki plugins to convert it to something that can be converted to latex, or sometiong documentation oriented. I'll take a look at the twiki plugins -- dams
