[Scons-dev] What to replace the wiki with?

Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Sat Dec 13 11:53:36 EST 2014


Can find search on bitbucket version, but it's there on github.

-Bill

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

> Gary,
>
> On 13.12.2014 15:06, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
>
>> Here's a wiki progress report.
>>
>> * I've re-enabled the regular wiki, in read-only mode. That way at least
>> people can see it.  Pair may take it down again but it's better than
>> nothing.
>> * I put up test versions of the wiki, converted to markdown, on both
>> bitbucket and github.
>>   - bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/FrontPage (this is
>> backed by an hg repo)
>>   - github: https://github.com/garyo/scons-wiki/wiki/FrontPage (this is
>> backed by a git repo)
>>
>> IMHO, the bitbucket version looks better.  They both are functional.
>> They both have online editors, and both allow specifying a list of approved
>> contributors who can edit directly, without making pull requests.  They are
>> both DVCS-backed and can accept pull requests (I think, haven't tried
>> that.)  I don't know much yet about searchability or TOCs.
>>
>> Feel free to play with them (but don't expect your changes to persist
>> forever, these are just tests).  Please let me know what you find.
>>
>>  this is awesome! For me, both of the options look good enough to give
> them a go. The "bitbucket" version is my winner, because it uses the full
> page width for content. I think this is important, e.g. for places where we
> quote source passages with longer lines...
>
> One other thing I noticed is, that on the "SconsIsNotSlow" page the
> attached files were successfully converted...but the images seem to be
> missing. Maybe there is a convert option for that?
> Otherwise, as I said above, it's perfectly good to start from here and
> manually improve pages where required.
>
> Dirk
>
>
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