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  • From: Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Happy New Year!
  • Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:22:37 +0300

The website of a distro, especially such complex, is not a blog and is
not a news list. It isn't a 3-pages homesite with several updates once a
year as well.

It's a complex (in structure -- think of many sections, subsections and
syntax and view of >500 pages) thing that is needed to be structured
properly. Wiki engine (especially one that conforms any good standard
-- so it'll be easy to migrate to any other wiki if needed) provides a
lot of useful features like automatic linking, indexes, menu
generation, orphaned and wanted pages, backlinks and so on. And it is
still a consistent site with single auth (captcha-supported as well),
pages' preview, search and history.

And it's always easy to support something that is a standard. If some
product is becoming dead -- no problem to migrate to something that is
actively developed and conforms the same standard.

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:51:18 -0300
Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 13:12:35 -0500
> Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>
> > wrote:
> <...>
> > I don't think a wiki is necessarily needed right now. I remember David
> > complaining about all the bot spam being posted and it's not like
> > anyone has made any real changes to the wiki in years. Lets just get
> > things up for now.
>
> +1. In fact, I believe a Wiki is unnecessary, since edits will
> generally be done by developers, we could just publish a static
> website generated from a git repository (perhaps with a wiki-like
> editor on the web that generates a patch for the user to send to the
> mailing list).


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Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>

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