Re: [PATCH,wwwdocs] redirect users to the gfortran wiki

[Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:34:15PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     > However, not requiring any form of copyright assignment/disclaimer/
>     > whatever means that we will not be able to take any of that and
>     > integrate it into our regular documentation or main web pages.  And
>     > this does concern me.
> 
>     A large amount of info on the Fortran home page is out of date due
>     to its transient nature.  For example, we have a wish list of Language
>     Extensions.  Item 9 is completed, item 8 is on its way, and item 3
>     is being worked.  The hoops to jump through to change the status and
>     then delete the item in a few months is too much when I'd rather be
>     hunting gfortran bugs.  The TODO list is even in worse shape.  Many
>     items have been fixed or implemented.
> 
> There are two separate possible purposed for a wiki.  One is what you
> talk about, which are todo lists and related transient material.  I
> agree with others that a wiki is the best way to deal with such material
> and there's no IPR issue because there's no final product.

Bingo.  We have a winner.

> However, the other usage is a sort of collaborative documentation, akin to
> the way wikipedia works, with the goal of making a final document that
> can become part of the official documentation.  In *that* case, you need to
> be very clear that you track the IPR status of every contribution.  If you
> don't, you can't distribute the result or even use it as a starting point
> for a rewrite, thus making all the work useless.

I don't care about the Fortran web page.  Most, if not all, of that matter
will never be included in some official documentation.  The anal retentive
review process for the web pages is a problem if one is trying to get recent
info to the user base.  I've already pointed out a simple one paragraph patch
to direct Fortran users to more recent and more relevant info was submitted
5 days ago.

There has been zero comments on the patch or approval for its commit to
cvs.  So far, I've seen more rhetoric in the wiki versus official web
page debate.  I couldn't care less about the debate.  I only care about
get info to the gfortran users.  This isn't rocket science or religion!

Can I commit my patch?

-- 
Steve