Wikis are useful software that allows developers to work collaboratively and quickly on informal documents that are part of the day-to-day running of the packages or project activities.
This includes documenting such things as: - Email thread summaries - Status updates - Meeting notes - Summaries of discussions around best practice activities In researching this kind of wiki setup I have discussed the issue with various GNU Maintainers and the consensus seems to be that such a system should have the following qualities: - Based on a VCS e.g. git - Uses a supported wiki platform e.g. dokuwiki - With a sensible markup e.g. markdown plugin for dokuwiki What do people think about setting up a wiki? Several packages already have wikis like: The GNOME Project (https://wiki.gnome.org/) The GNU C Library wiki (https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/) The GNU Debugger wiki (https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/) The GNU Compiler Collection wiki (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki) However, we have no good central community wiki to put document those things listed above. Does anyone have a strong opinion on which wiki software should be used? Selection criteria for a wiki? I'm suggesting dokuwiki + git. Access controls for the wiki? Anyone who volunteers or wants to volunteer their time to the GNU Project? Where could we host a wiki like this without causing confusion with official project content? Lastly, for direct discussion of the GNU Coding Standards and Information for GNU Maintainers please see https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-standards. Wiki summaries could feed into discussions on bug-standards or bug-standards discussion could get summarized into the wiki to build consensus for particular changes. Looking forward to any feedback volunteers want to provide. Cheers, Carlos.
