[Bf-docboard] Current state of wiki updating.
amdbcg
amdbcg at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 22:53:13 CEST 2012
A Scrum meeting sounds excellent. Wednesday night? what time in UTC? I'm
in the USA (CST -6:00 UTC)
When the meeting takes place, could someone take notes, summarize, and
post these notes back here? This will put everyone on the same page.
-amdbcg
On 9/3/2012 8:38 AM, Kesten Broughton wrote:
> One thing that would really help with relaxing the review process and
> avoid things getting messed up would be a history tab
> <https://share.coursera.org/wiki/index.php?title=ML:Neural_Networks:_Learning&action=history>.
> Many wikis have this and it serves as a version control of sorts. I
> believe it is "built in" to the wiki framework and should just need
> enabling.
>
> This way, at times when our reviewer to contributor count is too low
> we could allow contributions to be pushed live before review with a
> note that "This page needs review" like wikipedia has. If the new
> contribution is really "messed up" then the change could be reverted
> (but not destroyed).
>
> When our reviewer team is functioning, then we could tighten up the
> process to 'push live".
>
> I'm currently doing some review for Jim's work on BGE, but I haven't
> been trained by one of the core members, so i'm not sure if i'm
> missing anything. We're also not clear on the procedure to push live
> once a page has been reviewed.
>
> This page should be used to track our work in progress.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual
>
> My vote is for a wiki-team scrum on IRC asap where we can hash out a
> short term plan for the next month or two that is satisfactory to
> all. How about wed night?
>
> kesten
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Brecht Van Lommel
> <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be <mailto:brechtvanlommel at pandora.be>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I agree that the review process is not working, at this point the
> community is just too small to have a process this formal. People
> can't take responsibility immediately, they start first making small
> changes, and later might get more involved and be ready to take on
> responsibility. But there's not much point in doing that before they
> have worked for a while to convince themselves and others that this is
> something they want to do.
>
> Not sure what the right answer is, but I think the reviewing process
> should be relaxed. At least small changes like documenting a new
> option and the type of cleanups mentioned at the top of manual pages
> should be allowed without review. Why not do that and have a few
> people monitor recent changes? I'd volunteer for that.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&limit=500&days=30&target=Doc%3A2.6%2FManual
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:20 AM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com
> <mailto:mindrones at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > at least until the end of September, I will really have no time to
> > follow wiki pages editing and/or reviewing.
> >
> > Opening up the wiki has been done already and the mess that came out
> > in a year took months to be fixed.
> > After long discussions we have preferred to push people to take
> > responsibility instead.
> >
> > We have decided to start this table
> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki%20Team#Roles
> > to invite people to take responsibility for some particular chapter.
> > That table is still kind of empty though... If you are active on the
> > wiki and want to take responsibility for a certain area of the
> manual,
> > just show up there.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Let me apologies for the long silence, I'll try to be more
> active and
> > read these mail more often.
> > Also, not being able to talk on IRC nowadays is quite a big hassle,
> > sorry for that.
> >
> > Frankly, if I will realize that I'm being more of a burden than a
> > help, I'll "resign" from my role of wiki coordinator and will
> let the
> > witness to someone else. In my view Greylica is a good
> substitute for
> > example, him being quite enthusiastic and active since a long
> time :),
> > but that should be discussed by other admins and active writers.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca
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