Read-only Wiki? [LWN.net]

Read-only Wiki?

Posted Dec 14, 2006 19:25 UTC (Thu) by wcooley (subscriber, #1233)
In reply to: Read-only Wiki? by skvidal
Parent article: RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

Creating an account was the first thing I did. A little more openness of access (even if it means stronger registration validation) would remove the necessity to beg for access, which is usually past my Bothering Point. (Which is part of the reason I have my own wiki in the first place.)

I'm not volunteering to write documentation as such, but I am willing to share the bits and pieces I've written over the years (which, admittedly, isn't much).

Also, a comprehensive update of packager-oriented documentation seems to be the most salient item missing from the list above. My biggest frustrations through the years with RPM haven't been with technical errors but the paucity of specfile documentation, including not only reference-level material but also "best practices" guidelines and such.

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Read-only Wiki?

Posted Dec 14, 2006 19:38 UTC (Thu) by jkeatingatredhat (guest, #40062) [Link]

That is indeed something that has been missing. Fedora has created some documentation around this and best practices through our packaging guidelines. What I hope is that overtime each vendor of RPM will link their specific documentatino from the rpm.org website. I know Red Hat has some resources that were waiting for this upstream reboot in order to start contributing / cleaning up some documentation so hopefully that will happen soon.

As for getting write access, I tweaked the Contribute page slightly so that there is a link from 'request' EditGroup to the Communicate page which lists various avenues to communicate with folks who can add you to EditGroup. Thils little dance is unfortunately a bit necessary for popular wikis to prevent spam.