[Bf-docboard] 4th November Meeting Summary

[Joe Eagar]

Juho Vepsäläinen wrote:
> Hi
>
> The attendance of the meeting was low but we managed to have a 
> successful meeting with a couple of interesting results.
>
> We created a page for the meetings: 
> http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDoc/Meetings. You can 
> find the agenda and the log of each meeting there.
>
> The main issues we went through during the meeting were following:
>
>
> 3. Wiki writers
> The current way of granting writing rights won't work in longer term. 
> It was decided that granting of writing rights should be changed 
> towards merit based system similar to CVS commit rights in Blender 
> source. This means that the new users provide "patches" as in 
> additions to the wiki that will be reviewed by the wiki team. To 
> provide easier reviewing, it was suggested that a tracker should be 
> created for this. The tracker could also contain work list. It could 
> be used to assign work to the writers and to coordinate efforts.
Oh god please don't do that.  That sounds like a very bad idea to me.  
Sorry.  The whole point of a wiki is for lots of different people being 
able to improve and work on things without having to go through approval 
processes et cetera.

Joe