[Bf-docboard] Wiki reorganization proposal - svnBlog

[mindrones]

Hi,

--- On Mon, 1/5/09, Nathan Letwory <jesterking at letwory.net> wrote:

> We have had such a proposal already before (using === Scons
> === for
> instance). In theory it is great, but in practice it is
> *really* hard
> to get committers to use it. After one failed attempt to
> get
> committers to tag their commit messages, I don't see
> why it would work
> this time.
> 
> The best way to 'fix' this is to have a dedicated
> person (or several),
> who closely monitor commit logs and handle them right away
> when they
> arrive in the inbox.


Flickr and Wordpress have a quite efficient system to let the users to manage categories and tags (their interface uses Ajax so it is quite fast and intuitive).

Sometime ago I've found that Wordpress and Flickr let you blog via mail (and that's how I do now). I have added a section in the wiki here
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mindrones/blender-wiki/proposal/workflow#svn_log_.2F_commits_tags.C2.A0
and here
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mindrones/blender-wiki/proposal/reference#Blogging_via_mail

We could setup a blog and send committs mails to this blog, in order to let users to manage tags/categories easily.
Maybe having such a nice interface would help committers and documenters?

Also, svn logs can be edited for a revision after it's been committed
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#change-log-msg
so if someone changes commmits tags/cateogories in the svn-blog, we might edit svn logs accordingly with a script, so this tagging work will remain even if you discard the blog system in the future. What do you think?

Regards,
Luca


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