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

Roy Golan rgolan at redhat.com
Sun Jan 8 08:17:42 UTC 2017


Adding infra which I forgot to add from the beginning

On 7 January 2017 at 02:44, Jakub Niedermertl <jniederm at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Roy Golan <rgolan at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 4 January 2017 at 12:17, Maor Lipchuk <mlipchuk at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Daniel Erez <derez at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to suggest a bit lighter workflow:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1.  Everyone can merge their page - (it's a wiki)
> >>>>   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
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> +1.
> >>> Moreover, I think we shouldn't block any merging. Instead, wiki
> >>> maintainers could act afterwards and revert when needed (Wikipedia
> style).
> >>> Another issue is that (sadly) unlike mediawiki, we need to wait for
> wiki
> >>> publish after a change. So I'd suggest to build and publish the wiki at
> >>> least once a day. Any way, I think we should make the workflow much
> more
> >>> intuitive and pleasant like the previous wiki - i.e. much less
> restrictive
> >>> than manipulating a code base.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
> >>>>  ---
> >>>>
> >>>>  Simple I think, and should work.
> >>>>
> >>
> >>  +1
> >> The effort of maintaining the wiki today compare to how it used to be
> >> before is much more cumbersome and problematic.
> >> I think we can learn a lot from wikipedia workflow,
> >> It is a much more inviting process where anyone can change the content
> >> easily.
> >> I'm not saying we should let any anonymous user change the wiki but even
> >> if we make it easier in house we can achieve much more informative
> reliable
> >> and updated wiki.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > I really think Github Pages is a perfect fit and an alternative to my
> first
> > suggestion. see
> > https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/wiki/Why-aren't-we-using-this%3F
>
> +1
> Github wiki would allow us instant publishing, review after after
> publishing, it works purely in browser (no need for running local ruby
> server) and it's a service that doesn't require any maintenance form
> our side.
>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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