Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:02:53 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TODO list for volunteers (similar to the list of things for Google's summer of code) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0506131002130.16665@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050613004704.3c0d8fe2@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20050612154403.2b49d0d8@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050612194227.GA11407@soaustin.net> <20050613004704.3c0d8fe2@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:42:27 -0500 > linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:44:03PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > I intend to write everything up over the next week and give it to some > > > of our docs people for SGML review (if nobody volunteers I pick someone > > > out of the blue and ask nicely for a review :-) ). > > > > I wonder if such a list, being fairly subject to change, might not be > > better suired to a wiki rather than being committed to SGML? > > Technical reasons: > If someone implements an entry from the list, it's not much work to > commit the removal of the entry from the list. And since we don't want > to have an endless list, the number of additions should be limited. > Since a commit requires a commit log, the removal of a non-sense entry > also comes with a reason (at least it should). > > At least the last part looks like a VCS is well suited for the job. > > Visual reasons: > You can use the power of SQML to render structured data, while in a > wiki you have to do everything on your own (with the typical cut&paste > errors and inconsistencies). > > Do you have any strong reasons which make the wiki a better choice? Is there a reason why feature-requests can't be integrated into the bug tracking system? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 9287088 or 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Bolstered by my success with vi, I proceeded to learn C with 'learn c'.
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