On 7/26/2010 3:38 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: >> I'm pretty sure I explicitly gave a process to >> delete pages within the wiki community effort: > > Well, that's comforting. I would like some clarifications though: > > >> "Once the replacement is in place and checked out, >> then the old pages are fully deprecated and may be >> deleted." > > Do you necessarily expect the replacement page to have all the > information from the old pages, old though it might be?
Doesn't have to, otherwise how could things change? > The reason why I didn't feel you were giving a process to delete pages > is because you said we should keep information from very outdated > versions of Ubuntu in the off chance that they might help someone > somewhere. So I want to have this clear. Do you oppose deleting > information about ancient releases of Ubuntu? Do you oppose deleting > information about small minority distributions such as Gentoo? The biggest problem with our very loose PDL development team is the risk of someone doing something irreversible and not taking ownership of the issue until things are fixed. For example, you were working on the new web site a while ago (last year?) and accidentally wiped out the existing site but you kept at it until things were up again. Now, of course, things are *much* better than those early days. :-) The nightmare example: someone deletes a bunch of pages, adds a couple, leaves a net result where we don't even have the original pages to remind us that things need to be fixed with partial pages for the additions,... ...and then moves on leaving the wiki to languish until someone has the time and interest to fix things---again. Note: something like could also happen *unintentionally* if an editor thought it was a good idea but did not realize facts X, Y, and Z and after the edits it was not possible to even fix the problem. This kind of situation is why I encourage a staged process in our development and documentation. BTW, I've made this type of mistake myself but was rescued by version control and sometimes by dint of major effort to repair the damage I had caused. > In light of P.Kishor's efforts to update the Mac OS X page, I would > like to modify my proposal to this: > > 1) Delete all the *Linux*-specific install pages and replace them with > a single install page for all Linux. This page may have information > about specific distributions if it seems appropriate. In fact, it > could even be divided by distribution if that seems appropriate. > > 2) Delete the page titled "Installing PDL the quick and easy way". > Instead, edit the wiki main page and put direct link to all the > install pages on the wiki. Now there are only four: > > - Installing PDL on Linux. > - Installing PDL on Windows. > - Installing PDL on Mac OS X. > - Installing PDL Manually. > > > I hope you'll agree that this is much better organized than what we have > today. It lookss great so far. > I can volunteer to write the "Installing PDL on Linux" page, but it > would be short. I would copy little content from the outdated Linux > pages. > > How does that sound? Sounds a lot like an Editor and Content manager... :-) Hope the explanation above helps. Keep up the good work. --Chris _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
