[ovirt-devel] Lowering the bar for wiki contribution?

Yaniv Kaul ykaul at redhat.com
Wed Jan 4 08:29:06 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Roy Golan <rgolan at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm getting the feeling I'm not alone in this, authoring and publishing a
> wiki page isn't as used to be for long time.
>

Indeed. Several changes in the process have made it more difficult than it
probably should be.


>
> I want to suggest a bit lighter workflow:
>
> 1.  Everyone can merge their page - (it's a wiki)
>

It's not really a wiki. Perhaps parts of the site should be?


>   Same as with (public and open) code, no one has the motivation to
> publish a badly written
>   wiki page under their name. True, it can have an impact, but not as with
> broken code
>

Does everyone have merge rights in public and open code?


>
> 2. Use Page-Status marker
>  The author first merges the draft. Its now out there and should be
> updated as time goes and its
>  status is DRAFT. Maintainers will come later and after review would
> change the status to
>  PUBLISH. That could be a header in on the page:
>  ---
>  page status: DRAFT/PUBLISH
>  ---
>

Interesting idea. How do we ensure we are not left with draft content all
over?
Y.


>
>  Simple I think, and should work.
>
>
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