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[Jason Flatt <jflatt AT sourcemage.org>]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 11:59 pm, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
>
> 3.  It should be the individual Team Leads' responsibility to make sure
>     things in their areas of the wiki that are complete get moved to the
>     Drupal site in a timely manner.  The Tome team and the Project
>     Lead/Asst. Project Lead will be available to help with this, but it
>     will be the TL's job to make sure it gets done.  Drupal will remain
>     editable only by those who have edit permissions, which includes the
>     Tome team, the Leads, and their designees.

Knowing how things currently are with the Source Mage development team (and 
how they were in the past), I'd say that the wiki will end up being the 
primary doc site, because only a very few people will move the final docs to 
the Drupal side.  As it is, the team leads don't even update their own 
objectives very often, and no amount of poking by any project leader has 
improved that.  Very few people want to document -- they only want to code, 
and that's universal.

>
> How do the rest of you who have an opinion feel about this?  A question yet
> to answer would be who would have either read or write access to the wiki.
> We would want to make it useful for what it's intended for without creating
> a scenario where it just takes over the role of the Drupal site for
> content, because that just makes the Tome team's job harder.  The most
> draconian approach would be to only allow registered developers to read and
> write the dev wiki.  A more open approach would be to let anyone read it
> and any registered user approved by a TL edit it.  Thoughts?

My thoughts on this area are that the wiki should be readable by all, and r/w 
by anyone with a valid account, based on an e-mail account registration 
process.  If it has to be approved by someone, it's possible that it could 
take a few days, and by then, the doc writing inspiration will be lost.  :^)  
I am, however, okay with the TL approval process as a better way of 
validating accounts.

-- 
Jason Flatt
Source Mage GNU/Linux: Linux so advanced, it may as well be magic.
http://www.sourcemage.org/
jflatt AT sourcemage.org

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