Dear R Developers, I am writing in order to open a constructive debate whether if it is worth it that R Project adopts the Apache Software Foundation & Wikipedia Model for Open Documentation by using a Collaborative Wiki & Document Store (As a complement to Bugzilla and Mailing Lists), for fostering collaboration in R Development.
The objective would be to promote innovation and collaboration between: • R Contributors. • R Core. • And R Community. For: • R Development. • R Contributed Documentation. • R Internals Wiki. The Wikis Section could be structured in different Sub-Wikis (or Pages) with different levels of permissions: • Some only editable by R Core. • Others only editable by R Core, and R Contributors. • And others editable by any member of R Community. And have different Categories, such as: • R Learning Resources. • R Cheatsheets. • R Development & Key Internals. • R Contributed Documentation. • R Help. • etc. A key point would be that the wikis are installed, hosted and accesible through CRAN Servers, as a way to give some collaborative GUI to CRAN hosted documentation. Three collaborative wikis worth to consider would be: • xwiki SAS (Open Source): http://www.xwiki.org • Atlassian Confluence (Free for Open Source Projects): https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence • MediaWiki: www.mediawiki.org I personally prefer xwiki for being 100% Open Source, and being editable with a Markdown Syntax; but we use Confluence at work and I am also very happy with it; and MediaWiki is the one Wikipedia uses, but seems difficult to use. Thank you & best, Juan [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
