Re: [ gpsdrive ] Wiki Write Access

[Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>]

> David wrote:
> > I have had a couple of goes at getting write access to update the
> > wiki. Any ideas if those problems have been sorted out?

[hopefully; new login name sent to you in private email]

> > It seems like this would be the palce to add some of the FAQ's that
> > come up on the list from time to time.
> >
> > We could answer the popular questions on the wiki and just post a
> > link on the list back to it.

Joerg wrote:
> I have got repointed to the wiki by someone these days. I had a look
> at some pages and found that most of the stuff I was looking at there
> was really really outdated. So I think a FAQ which is then also
> outdated doesn't make too much sense. 

This is IMHO mostly because our wiki barrier to entry is too high.
(due to earlier SPAMbomb nightmare)

> I personally would prefer to see the FAQ also hosted inside the
> gpsdrive Package itself.

I disagree. Sure it's a nice idea to pull a copy of the WikiFAQ.html
into the tarball at release time, but for maintaining it really
cuts down on potential contributers.

Another solution is grant liberal SVN write access to the 
trunk/Documentation/ directory. Source code write access would remain
as it is now. AFAIK this level of control is something that SVN allows
which CVS doesn't.

> I think this is not too difficult, since most of the people writing
> answers to a potential FAQ do have write access to the SVN-repository.

If those folks could delegate out the task to willing non-programmers,
then they could spend more of their finite gpsdrive time coding.

> And for those who don't, they can send it to the list and one of the
> SVN-write enabled developers can add it to the FAQ.

Double handling + more of an unneeded time drain on the devels.

> This is one more attempt to focus our documentation to one Spot:
> 	http://svn.gpsdrive.cc/gpsdrive/trunk/Documentation/

IMHO having this content created collaboratively on the wiki site and a
static version pulled from there at release time is the way to go.

> BTW. Someone should go through the wiki and remove all the invalid
> stuff.

Updated is preferable to deleted, but back to the problem of not enough
users with write access to the wiki.


I'll call again for the website to be maintained in SVN and pulled daily
from there to the webserver and mirrors, as not even the devels with
write access to SVN can work on it currently.


2c,
Hamish
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