-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Robert Ramey Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:54 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Guidelines on wiki
Daniel James wrote:
Hello,
I've copied the guidelines onto the wiki now, you can see them at:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/Guidelines/
Any comments?
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". It's the classic tension between a dynamic system driven by independent agents all improving a system simultaneously vs. a tightly controlled effort to make the definitive "perfect" system.
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.
Agree that the wiki looks the best way forward. Editing is *much* easier - by anyone - but also vulnerable to instability and hacking? Can we copy a snapshot of the wiki to the (definitely read-only) Boost site with every release? I'm also concerned at the difficulty of finding the answers to questions. (The lists are proof that we haven't cracked this - some of the same queries come up again and again). 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'). Paul --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal, UK LA8 8AB +44 1539 561830, mobile +44 7714330204 pbristow@hetp.u-net.com