2010/12/1 Branko Vukelic <[email protected]>: > It's not about hosting. Git is a SCM, not a wiki. And there's a good > reason we have wiki software. What Hraban and I are suggesting is that > using Git for wiki could be detrimental to the overall process.
Let me clarify that this move is not just to stop spam. I believe that moving this to git will make bulk editing easier. For example, If I want to review all the cookbook entries and reorganize them, then it is going to be very difficult to do it in the website. With git, I can open all the files in my favorite text editor, jump between them, rename and commit. > For > many reasons, but here's a couple: > > * Pull request needs to be reviewed and merged manually With the current edit rate, it don't think it will be difficult. > * Not everyone uses git > * Not everyone wants a github account Either way you are going to ask them to create an account. Either on webpy.org or github. > * Wikipedia thrives on one-time edits, and I doubt people would go all > the way to clone just for that single edit I've noticed most of edits of that kind are simple fixes. Which can be done by raising an issue in github and we can make that process easier by adding a link in that page. > * Having your web framework's homepage run on your web framework is a good > thing I agree, but having good documentation is more important than running the website on the web framework. I believe that keeping all docs in git repo makes bulk editing easier. > All in all, I think this move would be a HUGE overkill for the kind of > problems (vandalism) it is trying to solve. This type of problem is > easily rectified by adding sysop privileges and locking pages down. Already answered above. I'm going to take the dump of the wiki and convert it into a git repo soon. I'll look at the edit stats before making the decision. Thanks for your feedback. Anand -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" 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/webpy?hl=en.
