The website is pretty much a reviewed wiki already. It just happens to use git format-patch as the way to submit to it, instead of a an inline textbox. This raises the bar slightly, making people think through any contributions thoroughly before submitting a patch.
- Jonathan On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Ciaran McCreesh < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:58:05 +0100 > "Wulf C. Krueger" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 05.03.2010 um 10:16 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh > > <[email protected] > > >: > > > The problem with wikis is that most of the information on them is > > > misleading, harmful, out of date or just plain wrong. > > > > Actually, that's been proven wrong. It's the same kind of FUD some > > people like to spread about Paludis and Exherbo. > > Go and look at all the information on Paludis on gentoo-wiki, and all > the mess the paludis-extras people caused. > > > A wiki may not be perfect for us but we shouldn't even try > > preventing anyone to create an inofficial one. > > Yes, we should. Wikis cause more harm than good. They mislead users, > which in turn leads to huge amounts of wasted developer time, and they > distract users who could be contributing to official, maintained, > reviewed documentation. > > > >> Do you suggest alternatives? If not, what's to hypothetically > > >> halt any > > >> Exherbo user from posting an unofficial Wiki: say, > > >> "http://exherbo-wiki.org "? > > > > > > If you do that we'll just ban anyone who uses it from all the > > > official support channels. > > > > No. We should NOT ban anyone for using something or we would just > > behave like the worst kind of Gentoo idiots. If they *behave* like > > morons, ban them. Otherwise, let them use what they want. > > Following advice found in a wiki *is* behaving like a moron. Paludis > users following 'community' driven resources have wasted almost as much > of my time as the Gentoo council has. Putting up a wiki is actively > working against having a distribution where competent people have final > say. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh > > _______________________________________________ > Exherbo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev > >
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