Some notes on the Wiki (was: 4.1 news item)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:

| On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 20:14 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
| > 
| > | On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 19:31 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
| > | > I noticed that the Wiki is getting more and more of a third place where
| > | > to find documentation in addition of gcc/doc and wwwdocs, and a parallel
| > | > universe at that, with quite some duplication and inconsistencies.
| > | 
| > | Have you not yet discovered that this is because people find the
| > | documentation we have to be hard to work with, and submitting patches to
| > | write in texinfo and whatnot to be a pain in the ass? 
| > 
| > 
| > I disagree with the notion that because our current documentation is
| > imperfect, we shall move the corrected one to the Wiki page.  I think
| > we've gotten too far in putting valuables bits of GCC outside our main
| > documentation repository.
| 
| This happens because
| 1. People don't want to write texinfo, and continually submit patches to
| update the docs little by little (remember, people work on docs the same
| way they do on code.  Most of the time, what they have written is not
| complete yet.  Which is fine for the wiki, but not for our cvs docs, it
| seems), whereas this is trivial with the wiki
| 2. The docs people seem to want to write or use don't fit anywhere in
| our current scheme.

Then, let's extend that scheme (no, I exclude Wiki :-))

-- Gaby