Jay Levitt wrote:
> I'm starting to dive into subversion development so I can fix a few
> long-standing VirtualHost/mod_dav_svn bugs that I keep hitting, and
> I'm noticing that most of the major documents are several years old,
> and obviously pre-1.0.
> In theory, everyone could contribute today to these docs; they're in
> SVN, and we could submit patches. In reality, the effort of going
> through a patch submission just to clarify some language or add a
> helpful tip is a barrier. (My existence proof is, again, the state of
> the docs.) Meanwhile, there's talk about how to automate processes so
> the project can handle more developers. Well, have -I- got a solution
> for -you-.
>
> From my brief experience with developer wikis in the Rails world,
> wikis are better at staying current. Technically, they're no
> different than checked-in text files as we have today. But you're
> read them online, and if you see something that needs changing, you
> click a button and change it, right then and there. They tend to need
> "gardening" once in a while, to refactor a bunch of comments into a
> more coherent form, but they remain updated due to their more
> interactive nature; every reader's an editor. And, of course, they're
> revision-controlled. There have been problems with wiki spam, but
> that's easily solvable with minimal access controls/registration.
>
> I'd be willing to do the work to port the existing docs to a wiki and
> set it up; I'm thinking Trac,
We'd still want the wiki page sources stored in Subversion. So Trac is a
non-starter, and AFAIK subwiki is the only wiki implementation that
stores pages in SVN.
> since that could pave the way for eventual migration from bugzilla to
> Trac for issue-tracking, if such a thing is ever desired. (In fact,
> I'd be willing to do the work for that, too; the tight integration
> between design docs, issue tracking and source code is a wonder to
> behold.)
As long as Subversion is hosted on tigris.org, we'll use whatever issue
tracking tigris provides.
> Is this desired by the dev team? I could pre-host it on my own server
> for testing, and then just tar the whole thing up to transfer to
> tigris when people feel it's ready for prime time.
-- Brane
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Received on Wed Oct 19 13:23:19 2005