Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2017-07-03 16:11:44 +0200: > On 03/07/17 13:58 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >Flavio Percoco wrote: > >> Sometimes I wonder if we still need to maintain a Wiki. I guess some > >> projects still use it but I wonder if the use they make of the Wiki could > >> be moved > >> somewhere else. > >> > >> For example, in the TC we use it for the Agenda but I think that could be > >> moved > >> to an etherpad. Things that should last forever should be documented > >> somewhere > >> (project repos, governance repo in the TC case) where we can actually > >> monitor > >> what goes in and easily clean up. > > > >This is a complete tangent, but I'll bite :) We had a thorough > >discussion about that last year, summarized at: > > > >http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-June/096481.html > > > >TL,DR; was that while most authoritative content should (and has been > >mostly) moved off the wiki, it's still useful as a cheap publication > >platform for teams and workgroups, somewhere between a git repository > >with a docs job and an etherpad. > > > >FWIW the job of migrating authoritative things off the wiki is still > >on-going. As an example, Thingee is spearheading the effort to move the > >"How to Contribute" page and other first pointers to a reference website > >(see recent thread about that). > > I guess the short answer is that we hope one day we won't need it. I certainly > do. > > What would happen if we make the wiki read-only? Would that break peopl's > workflow? > > Do we know what teams modify the wiki more often and what it is they do there? > > Thanks for biting :) > Flavio >
The docs team is looking for operators to take over the operators guide and move that content to the wiki (operators have said they don't want to deal with gerrit reviews). Please don't make the wiki read-only. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
