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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de> writes:

| On Tuesday 12 July 2005 00:06, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de> writes:
| > | Another idea that was coined on IRC is to have reviewing and commit
| > | after approval rules for the user manual, but to allow patches to the
| > | internals manual in without review.  Is that something people are
| > | willing to consider and discuss?
| >
| > the idea that we don't review internal manual is worrysome.  Some
| > years ago, I based a work on doc/c-tree.texi (thanks Mark!).  But the
| > fact that it escaped continual revision as code gets added or improved
| > made it a dangerous documentation, because it led to writing codes
| > based on semantics that was no longer true.  Got bugs, but don't know
| > which side is not working prorperly.  Similarly, we don't really want
| > to let doc patches in without double-check.
| 
| Think about what you are saying: "Because almost nobody is working on
| the internals manual, the documentation bit-rotted."

In fact, you just invented that and you're trying to credit me fort
it?  No, thanks.  Stick to what I wrote and if you think there is
something unclear, please ask.  But refrain from crediting me for
something I did not say.

-- Gaby