On 4/7/06, Matt England <mengland@mengland.net> wrote:
> At 4/7/2006 10:19 AM, Marc Haisenko wrote:
> >On Friday 07 April 2006 16:59, Matt England wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Does the Subversion project have a wiki? If not, I propose that it's worth
> > > making one.
> >
> >Why ?
>
> If the answer is not obvious, I'm not sure I wish to pursue the resulting
> discussion. You're welcome to continue with the status quo, and docbook
> editing will probably suffice for the formal stuff and may be a better way
> to coalesce the proper info.
>
> Best regards,
> -Matt
>
<rant>
I don't appreciate the condescending tone of wiki users when others
don't want (or "see" ) the use of a wiki. They are not some "golden
hammer" of project documentation. Personally, I've never, ever, been
on a project that used a wiki successfully. Not to mention the myriad
of project wikis I've been to that are woefully out of date because
it's just not worth it to document things in 2 places (the Wiki, and
the official docs that get distributed, if there are docs at all), or
people add pages and no one maintains them (because it doesn't
interest them and the original person has moved on).
If they work for you, great. But they don't work for everybody, much
like most tools.
</rant>
I think for Subversion, having members of the core team writing a free
book, always updating it with the latest feature information, is a way
to go. It seems to have worked well for this project.
If you do feel passionately enough about it, you could start up a SVN
wiki and get things going. And if it gets popular, I'm betting you
could convince the SVN devs to link to it.
Patrick
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Received on Fri Apr 7 18:01:48 2006