[Python-Dev] Python wiki (original) (raw)

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Mon Sep 27 22:36:25 CEST 2010

Hello

Le 25/09/2010 10:20, anatoly techtonik a écrit :

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

That's a good point actually... why isn't there a pydotorg-wiki-sig? (Aside from the obvious point of nobody ever asking for one). Because Yet Another Mailing List doesn't solve the problem. If you need one - go Google Groups like packaging folks did. Python ML are: 1. require dedicated admin to update, who is not a member of the group 2. don't have search 3. don't have optional thread subscription That's already enough to seek better platform for collaboration. This is debatable. Google Groups require a Google account, are not controlled by python-dev, require JavaScript to view the archives, don’t send MIME digests. The public archives for python.org MLs are indexed by Web search engines and are therefore searchable.

Re: thread subscription, there is a setting about topics in the mailman admin but I don’t understand it. I suppose a good email client can do something equivalent.

Community can perfectly manage the stuff without dedicated admins if there is a gameplay in it. I don’t agree with the split between admins and community. Admins are just trusted people from the community (which includes python-dev).

My advice - subscribe people editing page by default (a checkbox near submit button). +1 wholeheartedly.

With an admin team behind it, you can also make more use of ACLs to flag certain parts of the wiki as "official" by making them only editable by certain people I don’t know if this would be noticed enough to change the image of the wiki. I had started reviewing and updating all pages pertaining to distutils and distutils2 some months ago, and I viewed the wiki as a collaborative area to hash things out, before they can become official code or docs.

Regards

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