There is now. http://wiki.plkr.org/
> Frozentitan (Joseph) just posted a very useful step-by-step on getting
> plucker set up with sitescooper.
Very nice. Let's capture it in a HOWTO section of the wiki. I've
repeatedly asked for people to come up with "Articles" for the site, so I
can post them there for the benefit of others, but that seems to have fallen
on mostly-deaf ears.
> A fair number of questions on these lists are about how to do exactly
> that, and some of the other questions end up suggesting it as an answer.
Not a bad idea overall, to capture it, but who will manage it and
make sure the information is categorized and organized? Certainly not I ;) I
would be nervous about people posting all kinds of garbage into it, and if
there's one thing a wiki shouldn't be, it is a garbage collector.
Seriously though, I'd love to have the Plucker FAQ in here, and then
at each release (or somewhere in-between), aggregate it and push it back up
into CVS, with the current, updated information. That's one thing that could
definately benefit from a wiki-type collaboration.
> Is there a way to add this to the documentation? Even if it isn't in the
> distribution, it would be nice if the web site's documentation or tools
> page linked to it.
Agreed. I've got the task on my list to convert the docs to SGML, so
they can be better managed by different tools, so the missing bits there
should probably get posted/collected somewhere in the meantime. My plate
overfloweth already.
> Which brings me back to the original question: is there a wiki or some
> such, so that people can contribute documentation without the overhead of
> waiting for approval/checkin/release?
My only concern is that "newbies" tend to see an editable fora as a
blog, or a place to post bugs, when we already have facilities for that. As
far as Free Software projects go, we probably have the most widely-spread
tools and possible options for getting answers, bugs, questions asked, etc.
of any other project I've seen. irc, mailing lists, two or three search
engines (to the lists), public code and cvs archives (viewable and diff'ed
online, in a browser), wiki, FAQ, online documentation and various user
guides (Plucker Desktop, JPluck, and others), nntp interface to the mailing
lists (currently down for the moment), and a lot of other things. If there's
one thing Plucker doesn't lack, it's useful information in dozens of forms.
Give the wiki a go, and see if it doesn't help collect this
information. I nominate you (it was your idea, after all =) to help
kickstart the process, and keep the sections organized, as they start to
mature. In time, we can delegate it off.
Of course, if things break or get weird, let me know, and I'll
attend to them as soon as I can.
d.
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