----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel James" <dnljms@gmail.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Guidelines on wiki
Sorry about the very slow reply.
Robert Ramey:
It's a little unclear whether this kind of stuff should be in the wiki or the regular website. I find the website hard to update and often hard to navigate. So I like the wiki. But then, I'm a tiny bit concerned that given the ease of editing the wiki, it might tend to expand "all over the place".
Hopefully people with subversion access will be disciplined. But I think you're right, it should be someone's responsibility to oversee the wiki and keep things ordered. I think this page demonstrates that:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/Guidelines/MaintenanceGuidelines
Thinking about about, I think the former is a better model as I believe it will better model boost itself in the future. So you might want to expand your horizons a little to consider how the wiki might include a lot more of the information which is currently on the web site.
Yes, I plan to move more content there.
Paul A. Bristow:
Editing is *much* easier - by anyone - but also vulnerable to instability and hacking?
Hopefully not, since it's password protected.
Can we copy a snapshot of the wiki to the (definitely read-only) Boost site with every release?
My original plan was to just use the wiki, but I think you might right. By using snapshots, viewing the page will be faster and it'll allow people to freely edit the wiki pages. The workflow would be something like: edit the page, ask on the list for a review, if accepted the website manager imports the snapshot. Sounds okay?
Yes, IMO this merits to be experimented.
I've not found Google's indexing to work too well with my questions (often when I know that the answer is there somewhere).
Searching the wiki pages is faster and often more effective (because you've narrowed the searchable stuff - assuming you have the right 'page').
If all the pages are under the same subdirectory we can limit the search e.g.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.boost.org/development+integral
Great. This is what we need. I have tried with http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.boost.org/BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT and this give no result. What is wrong? Vicente