[CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

Tue Oct 6 18:53:44 UTC 2009
R P Herrold <herrold at centos.org>

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ed Heron wrote:

>  It appears that the people who are preferring the more restricted content
> guidelines are saying they will accept content separation.  But having 2
> separate content systems seems redundant.  Is there a way to have a section
> (directory) of the wiki that is core and an expanded section?  This might
> satisfy both sides?

Goodness -- wiki.centos.org and wiki.projects.centos.org is 
too hard or better somehow than wiki.centos.org and 
wiki.centos.org/projects/ where './projects' content carries a 
'this content is not as carefully vetted' disclaimer?

The second approach sounds like more of a slam than living in 
a 'projects.' sub-domain to me.

A refactoring of the personal homepages will have to happen in 
any event, and perhaps we should simply have a './personal/' 
in the main wiki and move all such into it ... but this then 
carries the expense of refactoring all the 'at the ./' point 
documentary narrative down a level as well.  ACL errors will 
be harder to avoid as well

By carrying two wiki, we avoid that workload, and can have a 
self-serve model for getting commits in the 'projects.' one, 
and the moderated approach on the vetted one.

My $0.02

-- Russ herrold