I agree with Petr, I see no reason to put them on different wikis. Namespaces are cheap.
-Chad On Jun 7, 2012 11:20 AM, "Petr Bena" <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand why? Wikitech is a perfect place for bots > documentation as well, especially when it comes to large bots operated > by many people, these needs to have documentation so that they can be > overtaken by someone else in case the original person who launched > bot, doesn't have a time to maintain it. > > Why should it be for foundation only projects? > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Ryan Lane wrote: > > > >>> I'm not sure if it makes sense to have the Labs/OpenStack/Nova > management > >>> interface on this same "new wikitech" wiki though. This means that all > the > >>> community projects running inside labs will/might use this same wiki > to document > >>> their internal structure - which can (and should be) a lot of projects > that are > >>> not Wikimedia engineering projects. > >>> > >>> Documentation for labs as being a Wikimedia project makes sense, but > the actual > >>> projects inside and management maybe don't fit well inside the new > wikitech. I > >>> like that of the labsconsole. > >>> > >> > >> Do you mean they aren't *staff* engineering projects? Labs is meant to > >> be a stepping stone. For most projects, the idea is that people will > >> implement something in Labs and it'll get moved into production. The > >> documentation for that project will then be the documentation for Labs > >> and production. > >> > >> One of the biggest reasons I wanted to merge the wikis is because I > >> feel that volunteer operations engineers should be documenting their > >> infrastructure changes in the same place as staff operations > >> engineers. > >> > >> - Ryan > > > > No, that's not what I meant. > > > > Contributions (from whomever) to for example the production cluster > puppets (through gerrit), that may have an RFC on wikitechwiki ahead of > time sounds awesome. Stuff can be proposed by whomever, and then > implemented by whomever. Then tested in labs and merged/pushed to > production. > > > > I was refering to projects that will not be foundation engineering > projects, or at least do not intend to be that. > > > > *cut 2 paragraphs* > > > > ...when trying to come up with examples, it turns out that those > examples (Tool-Labs: early extension development, bot hosting, slow-query > tools, ..) probably wouldn't put their documentation on either wikitech or > labsconsole, so nevermind. > > > > -- Krinkle > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
