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Auteur: golinux
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À: devuan developers internal list
Sujet: Re: [devuan-dev] Use of wikis on gdo
On 2019-08-30 11:42, Evilham wrote:

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I tried to find all the mentioned pieces scattered here and there and
just gave up. So yes, please move any populated wiki content to a
central location where it can be sorted. It will be much easier to
organize there.

>
> # A. Project exists just for the wiki
>
> ## Various 'official' documentation
> * devuan-doc/manuals
> * devuan/devuan-documentation
> * devuan/devuan-project
> * devuan/devuan-maintainers
>
> Out of these, basically only devuan-project and devuan-maintainers
> have any content.
>
> ## dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan
> This one is a bit special, wiki and repository appear to be very
> similar; hopefully they are pretty much the same.
>


It looks like the repository and wiki have slightly different content.
The pages on the site could be slightly different also. The latest merge
-
https://git.devuan.org/nylen/devuan-www/commit/c92e8a1269cabd38f5cca017b65409aa7fa8f613
- was on the repository and merged to www from there.

> On top of the above proposal to have a single wiki branch on a
> repository, I'd go further and recommend we merge all these projects
> into devuan/devuan-documentation, while maintaining attribution and
> git history for e.g. dev1fanboy's wiki.
> From a short IRC chat it appears that fsmithred and golinux agree this
> would be an improvement.
>


Fragmented documentation is useless imo. It should all be in one place
and grouped in categories. That may not be as easy as it sounds to get
it right.

> This should make it significantly easier to have an overview of these
> things.
> On that note: the contents of all of these wikis is probably very
> outdated; this over-compartmentalising is likely at least partially at
> fault.
>
> Since GitLab / gitea / whatever do render markdown/asciidoc documents
> properly when browsing a repository, we could even disable the wiki
> and just import the documents to a 'wiki' branch that is the default.
> This would enable by-passers to change the pages and create Merge
> Requests.
>


Simpler to have the wikis in the repository.

[snip]

> # B. Project does not have a specially useful wiki
>
> ## devuan-editors/devuan-art
> @golinux:
> Maybe the contents of the wiki could go to a docs directory in the
> main branch instead.
>


There is an outline on the devuan-art wiki but no content except for the
c/p init freedom icon. I balked at populating the outline because art
cannot be reduced to raw data - color is relative to other elements in
the visual environment.

> ## devuan-editors/devuan-www
> @golinux:
> I doubt anyone looks at the wiki for this repository. If there is
> anything useful it should be moved to a docs directory in the main
> branches.
>


There is some interesting stuff in there which I didn't know existed but
much of it now obsolete. That can be sorted once it's relocated. Still
a bit much of a head trip for me.

[snip]

>
> # C. Project appears to be useless (right now)
>
> Maybe these were useful in the past, maybe they never came to be.
> Either way, I'd think these projects should be marked as archived and
> revived if applicable in some future.
>
> ## devuan-editors/devuan-news
>
> ## devuan-infrastructure/Installer_Feedback
> @Centurion_Dan:
> Unsure if this is used anywhere, it doesn't look like it's ever been
> used though.
>


I trust your judgment as long as devuan-news is available an option if
someone wants to start it up again. Please keep the published
newsletters for historical purposes - maybe in an archive

golinux

> --
> Evilham
>