[haiku-web] Re: Making guides and essential information easily accessible

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With regards to the desire to use a wiki instead, it is possible to add
> to this system the ability to use medwiki formatting tags, and still
> enjoy the flexbility of HTML/CSS where needed, together with the added
> functions that Drupal provides. So the wiki thing is a possibility that
> can be addressed.

<snip>

> On a broader perspetive, the Documents section of the website has become
> too scattered IMO, filled with a lot of unmaintained documents many of
> which are out of date. I think this is due in great part to the
> approach of having individually submitted and owned articles, which
> relies on a single individual, thus becoming prone to resulting in
> abandonment.

Which is exactly why I recommend a wiki... supporting wiki tags isn't
good enough, we need a place where ANYONE can contribute at any time
and easily add/split pages if required.

The type of documentation I want to provide (and supersede) is mostly
pertinent to developer-types - and thus I think it belongs on
dev.haiku-os.org anyway...

Using Drupal for actual wiki purposes sounds neat and all, but it
doesn't sound natural IMO... I guess time will tell.

In the world of open-source software development, content that changes
frequently is very often expressed in Wiki format - it's where that
type of documentation and content generally ends up...

Many of them do end up using Trac wiki, for example:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SoftwareDevelopment

and I think I will probably lean that way in this scenario (rather
than mess around with some other software that would need to be
installed)
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