On 06/14/2018 08:41 PM, Martin Roth wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:35 PM Leah Rowe <i...@gluglug.org.uk> wrote: >> On 14/06/18 19:01, Martin Roth wrote: > >>> * The wiki requires a separate login from everything else, which >>> has to be created manually. >> Not only that, but it wasn't clear how to get an account in the first >> place> > I guess I didn't realize that it was a problem. If you clicked 'log > in' in the top of the wiki, it told you who to email along with their > addresses.
Yeah it was quite clear to me how to get an account when I first wanted to contribute and it only took a few days to get approved despite the fact that I am certainly not a member of the coreboot elite xD > "If you don't have an account and wish to contribute contact Stefan > Reinauer or Patrick Georgi and tell them what exactly you want to > contribute." > https://web.archive.org/web/20151031111952/http://www.coreboot.org:80/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Welcome+to+coreboot I must say that Mr. georgi was quite welcoming in granting me an account as a new user - and I have repaid that with a many helpful edits and created pages. >> By the way, what do you think of the idea I floated in a previous >> message? My idea is to have some kind of web interface where a >> non-technical user who doesn't know how to use git can browse the >> documentation on the website and click "edit", which will take them to >> the appropriate markdown file in the repository. When they're done, >> they give their edit a title and description, which becomes the commit >> message, and their contribution gets sent to code review (Gerrit). >> >> How feasible do you think this would be? >> It would give some of the ease of use of MediaWiki as before, while >> still having all of the advantages that you listed. > > I have no issue with that if someone wanted to work on it. It might > still cause some difficulties because those people probably wouldn't > be able to respond to requests for updates in gerrit An email could be automatically sent to them for that, and then replying to it could automatically create a reply on gerrit. > and they > wouldn't necessarily follow the rest of the rules we have for > submitting to coreboot, but maybe those issues could be worked out. > Maybe a documentation administrator could shepherd the patches the > rest of the way through the process.> > As far as feasibility, I'm sure it could be done, it would just take > someone committed to making it happen. This would be quite nice in terms of usability and I very much hope someone makes it. Also can someone answer: I presume that editing the wiki it requires my "real" name as it is on git? -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot