That sounds good to me. The link could point to the Packages Wiki page,
which contains a brief description of the purpose of that wiki. Then we can
begin to add package specific information.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 21/01/16 22:08, Ryan Day wrote:
>
>> As more software is added to the rumprun-packages repository, there will
>> be
>> a need to document how to build applications on top of rump kernel
>> packages. This may include working with web frameworks in Python, Ruby or
>> PHP.  Or it could include advanced configuration of particular daemons
>> that
>> run on top of rump kernels.
>>
>> The current rump kernel wikis (https://github.com/rumpkernel/wiki) are
>> focused on using and building rump kernels, as well as making software run
>> with rump kernels. In depth detail about specific packages doesn't fit
>> very
>> well in the existing structure.
>>
>> What does everyone think about a "Packages Wiki" to provide a single
>> location for package specific tutorials without cluttering the existing
>> wiki?
>>
>
> I'd just add a "Packages" category to wiki.rumpkernel.org for
> package-specific documentation.  It doesn't clutter the current wiki
> either, except one extra line in the navigation bar, which IMO, isn't that
> big of a clutter.  A new category in the wiki, IMO, has two advantages over
> a separate wiki for packages
>
> 1) all of the documentation for repo.rumpkernel.org is reachable from the
> same root
> 2) switching repo.rumpkernel.org hosting where repo-specific wikis are
> not naturally available is not a problem
>
> Maybe the category should have a subformat, e.g. "Packages: <packagename>:
> more specific title", where the last bit is optional.  I guess there are
> plenty of examples with python, python2 vs. python3 and python packages to
> see if that works or not.
>
>

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