On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 03:20:53 +0200
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
GuideXML documents are often experienced as an unnecessary
barrier.
I think you should clearly state again that this is not gonna replace
GuideXML, just migrate a few use cases where a wiki fits better.
This is
Joshua Saddler wrote lots of:
Thanks for sh**ting on my efforts.
See, this is not about your personal efforts. I really do appreciate the
work and time you invest in improving both the docs and PR. But otoh try
to compare what the docs-team and PR did say 5 years ago and what they're
doing today
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:33:48 +0200
Torsten Veller ml...@veller.net wrote:
perl people use `perldoc` anyway.
Yep. Why have a man page for a perl module? OTOH, if there is something
that goes in /usr/bin, it should get a man page if there is one. But
not for the modules themselves -- that's not
On 04/04/2010 04:48 AM, Joshua Saddler wrote:
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum
dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote:
- Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat
maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both
to our docs, but also to our docs-team)
On 4 April 2010 13:01, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
[...]
I am not pushing for our existing documentation to be migrated into a
wiki at this point. But I think that once the place is there, and it
functions well, it would be the obvious next step to do so. As I said
before, the
On 04/04/10 03:48, Joshua Saddler wrote:
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200
Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote:
- Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained,
but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but
also to our docs-team) for
On 04/04/10 10:29, Arun Raghavan wrote:
We _should_ have a wiki for easy note-taking,
maintaining todo lists, possibly even meeting minutes. But our
official documentation should go through sufficient review and
formatting to make sure we maintain the quality of documentation that
we have had
Joshua Saddler dixit (2010-04-04, 00:31):
Show me a wiki that has the flexibility of our handbook, which can be
a huge printer-friendly all-in-one doc, or an as-you-need-it doc with
one page per chapter.
Show me a wiki that has built-in intradoc linking to every paragraph,
chapter,
On 04/04/10 10:48, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
Has anyone considered the immensely powerful twiki?
if the wikis i have worked with twiki was the least
fun. it feels strange and it's native syntax sucks
big time, to say the least.
sebastian
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 00:31:52 -0700, Joshua Saddler
nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
No, he's definitely out to kill GuideXML. Just give him time.
At least for official documentation, that should not happen.
(That excludes non-doc parts of the website though imo. GuideXML is a
XML DSL designed
On 04/04/2010 12:35 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
Le samedi 03 avril 2010 à 12:50 +0300, Petteri Räty a écrit :
I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just
means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a
different resolution should be used. So
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:48:52 +0200, Antoni Grzymala
awa...@chopin.edu.pl wrote:
Has anyone considered the immensely powerful twiki?
The Webs concept of TWiki is interesting and the table editing nifty,
but we would need to assess if it matches our goals. I somehow fear that
it outreaches our
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 04/04/2010 12:35 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
You are trying to remove a valid status for a case that has been badly
managed ??? Speaking for gnome herd, afaik, all bugs marked LATER are
for the simple reason they
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:37:03 +0200, Sebastian Pipping
sp...@gentoo.org wrote:
[...]
Here's another idea:
The German Wikipedia uses a concept called sighted revisions. If
you visit an article without logging in you will see the latest
sighted revision, as an identified user you can also
On 04/04/2010 12:16 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 04/04/2010 12:35 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
You are trying to remove a valid status for a case that has been badly
managed ??? Speaking for gnome herd, afaik, all
On 04/01/2010 11:28 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:07:26 +0200
Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 03/27/2010 04:51 PM, Alex Alexander wrote:
The only reason I don't really like this is because it breaks
consistency. We have a ground rule, assign to maintainer,
On 04/04/2010 12:48 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
On 04/03/10 21:00, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote:
Maybe if we could find the way to make the knowledge found in
quizzes be more exciting to new devs, then we could still have a
strong recruitment process without the burden of completing the
Patrick Lauer posted on Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:44:38 +0200 as excerpted:
On 04/04/10 03:48, Joshua Saddler wrote:
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200
Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote:
- Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained,
but that's it. I haven't
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:22:06 +0200
Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote:
5 years ago [...] constantly added [...]
You need to clarify your metric. How are you defining constant? How often does
a new document need to appear?
What mostly happens is steady refinement and expansion of our
If you want to gauge the feeling in the community there are a couple of
threads in the forums.
Currently this answer seems to be typical of the general consensus when
asked what they could do to help Gentoo/become a developer:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6230439.html#6230439
On 04/04/10 08:31, Joshua Saddler wrote:
lots of stuff about what mediawiki supposedly can't do that is just
completely untrue
GuideXML may be better for the Handbook use case, with its ability to
produce single page and multipage documents, but frankly I think that
for the rest of the
On 4 April 2010 10:47, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 04/04/10 10:29, Arun Raghavan wrote:
We _should_ have a wiki for easy note-taking,
maintaining todo lists, possibly even meeting minutes
I suppose this^^^ is both a good solution and compromise,
both to wiki-fans and the doc
On 4 April 2010 10:48, Antoni Grzymala awa...@chopin.edu.pl wrote:
Has anyone considered the immensely powerful twiki?
No. So tell us why we should. Specifically, how does it compare to
MediaWiki in terms of features and performance?
Cheers,
--
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux Qt project lead
Show me a wiki that produces such beautiful code samples (with titles). Show
me a wiki that can produce the following formatting for ebuilds:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xml-guide.xml#doc_chap2_sect7
. . . or a wiki that makes it super-easy to add all sorts of additional
in-line
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:31, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
No, he's definitely out to kill GuideXML. Just give him time.
Why the antagonism? Ben isn't out to kill anything, he has no personal
vendetta against anything. Actually, nothing here is personal, but you
seem offended by
On 04/04/10 15:15, Dror Levin wrote:
At first, I'd wish for things to be migrated from the unofficial wiki
(if the license does not allow for copying, then re-writing it. Our
users will do a lot of it, I'm sure). I'd wish to migrate a lot of
things from the forums, after getting the authors
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 17:33, AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk wrote:
I'd like to ask what you think in launching a site that simply clones an
existing site is? Why take all the hard work the editors have put into
their articles on the unofficial wiki and duplicate them on another
site,
On 04/04/10 15:47, Dror Levin wrote:
Creating just another wiki is what's pointless. What I want is to
deprecate all unofficial wikis (there are others besides
gentoo-wiki.com) which were created simply because there never was an
official one and creating chaos, then centralize everything in
Sebastian Pipping wrote:
On 04/03/10 21:00, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote:
Maybe if we could find the way to make the knowledge found in
quizzes be more exciting to new devs, then we could still have a
strong recruitment process without the burden of completing the
quizzes. So, what I
On 4 April 2010 09:31, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 03:20:53 +0200
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
GuideXML documents are often experienced as an unnecessary
barrier.
I think you should clearly state again that this is not gonna replace
GuideXML,
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 23:05 +0200 schrieb Maciej Mrozowski:
On Saturday 03 of April 2010 14:16:14 Fabian Groffen wrote:
Shouldn't we fix that buildsystem then? Do you have an example of a
package/buildsystem that does that?
We already do, the thing is that maybe we don't have to.
Hm. Can you all just talk to the admin of gentoo-wiki and make it official?
On 4 April 2010 17:36, dev-ran...@mail.ru wrote:
Hm. Can you all just talk to the admin of gentoo-wiki and make it official?
Been there, done that. He's not interested.
--
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer
On 4 April 2010 16:33, AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk wrote:
I'd like to ask what you think in launching a site that simply clones an
existing site is? Why take all the hard work the editors have put into
their articles on the unofficial wiki and duplicate them on another
site, creating
On 4 April 2010 17:13, AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk wrote:
The unofficial wiki may have been created because there wasn't an
official one, but that doesn't mean it's any less of a community in its
own right.
And that doesn't mean that community wouldn't be interested to work
on a new,
On 4 April 2010 11:43, Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote:
Mentors can already suggest their students to do them in reverse order.
As always patches to separate technical and organizational stuff to
their own quizzes are accepted. My time on recruiting is quite maxed out
already. Doing
Ben de Groot dixit (2010-04-04, 14:31):
On 4 April 2010 10:48, Antoni Grzymala awa...@chopin.edu.pl wrote:
Has anyone considered the immensely powerful twiki?
No. So tell us why we should. Specifically, how does it compare to
MediaWiki in terms of features and performance?
I don't have
Am Samstag 03 April 2010 12:27:38 schrieb Krzysztof Pawlik:
Sounds good, can we at the same time get RESOLVED OBSOLETE (for bugs
that are not valid anymore due to changed situation, RESOLVED INVALID
isn't applicable in this case as it implies the bug is and was invalid
from the begining).
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I think the problem is that our recruitment process uses the ability to
answer complex technical and organizational questions as a way to assess
maturity. I think that maturity is far more important than technical skill
esOn Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 07:33:53AM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
On 04/03/2010 06:19 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote:
I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement.
Right now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a
Gentoo dev and to help somebody
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:23:54 +0200
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
As has been pointed out, your table example was unfair, as they don't
do the same thing. I would frown on such inline styling (that's what
stylesheets are for), and there are a number of ways you can markup
tables in
On 04/04/2010 20:33, Joshua Saddler wrote:
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:23:54 +0200
Ben de Grootyng...@gentoo.org wrote:
...
...
GuideXML is only easy if you are used to xml or html. Wikimarkup is only
easy if you are used to it as well. The difference is that with
mediawiki all you have to do
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:13:19PM +0100, AllenJB wrote:
The unofficial wiki may have been created because there wasn't an
official one, but that doesn't mean it's any less of a community in its
own right.
Starting the official wiki by effectively ripping off others work and
attempting to
On 2010.04.03 15:59, Tobias Scherbaum wrote:
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford:
First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling
anything
is
to measure it.
So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think
of a useful algorithm
On 04/04/10 23:45, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:13:19PM +0100, AllenJB wrote:
The unofficial wiki may have been created because there wasn't an
official one, but that doesn't mean it's any less of a community in its
own right.
Starting the official wiki by
On 5 April 2010 00:21, AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk wrote:
My problem is with the attitude of let's start the official wiki by
taking the content of the unofficial wiki, regardless of the wishes of
the active contributors of those articles.
[...]
If those who wish to run an official wiki
On 3 April 2010 20:56, George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
Does mediawiki have captcha ability?
Yes, there are a number of solutions for that.
--
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:21:13PM +0100, AllenJB wrote:
The way I see it, the official wiki has to earn my respect as a
project. The unofficial wiki already has already been through this
process. It's no different whether I'm trying a new piece of software or
a new distro.
It's not the URL
1 - requirements
In order to choose the best possible wiki implementation, we need to
know our requirements. So what features do you think are essential or
good to have? What syntax would we prefer to use?
I myself am a big fan of reStructuredText, which is quite simple,
On 4 April 2010 21:33, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
Having to write a custom stylesheet just to get one wiki page to do what you
want is pretty dumb.
Yes it would be. The idea is that you design consistent styling from
the get-go, so your stylesheets will be ready for those
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On 5 April 2010 02:02, Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote:
I'm not overly concerned about what wiki we use. But may I suggest we
approach gentoo-wiki to see whether they would like to be involved.
If anybody wants to approach them, that is fine by me. I'm probably
not the right person
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On 04-04-2010 04:50, Dale wrote:
I felt sorry for the KDE folks when KDE4 was released. It just had
to be a nightmare to get all that in the tree at once. If they had
twice as many people working on it tho, it would have been easier. The
people
Alistair Bush wrote:
I'm not overly concerned about what wiki we use. But may I suggest we
approach gentoo-wiki to see whether they would like to be involved.
+1, especially the overly concerned part. Seriously folks. Just start
it. Take whatever you as a person feel comfortable with. Talk
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 12:50 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
I don't think later is valid resolution. If there's a valid bug it just
means it's never looked at again. If the bug is not valid then a
different resolution should be used. So what do you think about
disabling later? I would like to avoid
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 02:08:06 +0200
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 4 April 2010 21:33, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
Having to write a custom stylesheet just to get one wiki page to do what
you want is pretty dumb.
Yes it would be. The idea is that you design
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On 03-04-2010 13:19, Ben de Groot wrote:
A proposal for a Gentoo WIKI that generated much replies
I have the following general comments about this thread.
* I congratulate everyone involved on this that is so motivated to
create a new option for
On 4/3/10 3:40 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
Are there any other ideas on how to improve our recruitment process?
The idea appeared before, but I think it's worth noting.
Either merge the ebuild and end quizzes, or make the split actually
meaningful. In my case I just finished both at the same
On 5 April 2010 04:01, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
jmbsvice...@gentoo.org wrote:
* I congratulate everyone involved on this that is so motivated to
create a new option for hosting content for the Developers and Community
at large and wish all the best for this project.
Thank you!
* I would
Zeerak Mustafa Waseem posted on Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:19:06 +0200 as
excerpted:
esOn Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 07:33:53AM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement.
Right now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a
Gentoo
On 5 April 2010 08:13, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 5 April 2010 03:13, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
[...]
Really, you're mostly making a case for a graphical XML editor like Beacon,
rather than making a case for a wiki. :)
That would already be a big improvement,
On 5 April 2010 10:34, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 5 April 2010 08:13, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 5 April 2010 03:13, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote:
[...]
You guys should take a while to cool off at this stage.
Never mind me. I missed Ben's last
Just replying randomly.
On 05.04.2010 04:33, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
I think this is a good starting point to get rid of the some important
questions are too hard to answer dilemma that can be implemented
relatively fast. On top of that I like Sebastian's idea to order the
quizzes by
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