Christopher Lenz wrote:
Note that if you remove the default wiki pages you'll have quite a
number of broken links in Trac due to the help links pointing nowhere.
Cheers,
Chris
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This problem of the default wiki is one I noticed when I first installed
Trac back at about 0.7. I don't think the wiki is really the correct
place for the Trac help files as they should not be editable. Also it
becomes even more strange when you have multiple projects. Every
upgrade of the Trac code (which has one install for all projects)
requires you to individually update each of the projects with the latest
default wiki pages to get the latest help. If someone has unwisely
edited one of the help pages then their changes will be lost in the update.
I can understand how this situation arose as it is natural for the Trac
guide etc to reside in a wiki on the Edgewall site. It is not natural
for the Trac guide to reside on the wiki on any other Trac site.
I propose that the Trac guide and associated "default" wiki pages are
converted to static HTML that is served out alongside the other static
Trac content (ie the templates). The conversion should be an automatic
part of the build process and the converter should be built into the
Trac code itself, perhaps as part of trac-admin. A manual conversion
would of course also be possible from the web interface too with a ui
allowing the selection of a subset of pages to convert.
A side effect of this of course would be to add a feature to Trac to
allow HTML documentation generation from the wiki! What a great feature.
Has anyone got any thoughts on this? Shall I lodge a feature request?
Should I post this to the dev group too?
Regards,
Felix
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