On May 8, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Sam Rowe wrote: > > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Luke Kanies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The bug tracker isn't that great, I must say. > > Man am I glad to read that. I completely agree. > > This seems like a separate issue though. What's being considered for > this? Bugzilla? It's the only one I've seen that doesn't suck, but > there's always new stuff out there.
I think James has mostly decided on Redmine. I can't stand Bugzilla. It's very functional, but it's a huge pile of unmaintainable and largely unmtained junk code, from what I can tell. > Yea, I too am a MediaWiki fanboy and it's untrue that there aren't > other parsers for it (http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki_Mediawiki > for example). There's also http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki Which > is getting a lot of positive WoM lately. > > We use MediaWiki for our internal documentation and are very very > happy with its featureset. While it's true that Wikis don't impose > structure, that doesn't mean you can't have wiki-nazis that organize > things for you. I have the great luck of being that person at my work > and would love to volunteer to help with the puppet one, but having > just lost 2/12 of our team (and the exact wrong two) we're completely > crushed. > > If you really want to solve the format conversion problem, I think > wikis aren't the way to go. In researching this stuff for my own > projects, it seems like, as horrid as it is, Docbook is the best thing > going. And also, it seems like if you get a wiki/whatever you like, > problem solved. While it'd be great to have off-line docs, they aren't > (obviously) essential. But if we just pick a common format, most of that becomes pretty easy. I'm still pretty uncomfortable with MediaWiki; it, like BugZilla, seems to somehow be successful even though the code base is pretty heinous, from what I've heard. I know it has a lot of great features, but we don't need most of them, and I really want a consistent, third- party format. I think it's decided to stick with RST; it's just a question of how to do so. -- Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity. -- George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
