On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:15:04 +0100 Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@suse.cz> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 07:49:30PM -0600, Rajko wrote: ... Hi Rajko,
thanks for a notice - I will take this into the account!
Thanks :) ..
* Packaging - as common category and catch it all for cases where author doesn't know where to put a new article. <few more categories removed>
not sure if that's a joke, or not
Not really. Unlike RPM groups example, where one package belongs to one group, wiki articles can be categorized in few categories. Categories are not just index that should have each item in exactly one place, it is more like tags. Each article can have as many as appropriate.
A personal note: I would say one of the problem in openSUSE is that we are overcategorized*. ...
I must agree on this, although my mind in this case was on having enough options to tag articles, so that one can have clear view what he is looking at.
So unless you're voluntering to make those categories up to date in a wiki, my approach is worse is better. IOW less categories are better than more, so I see only three possible candidates
Category:Packaging - the most general one Category:Packaging_guidelines - those are reviewed and are mandatory Category:Packaging_guidelines_$drafts - those are requested, but not reviewed
But for myself the third one is pointless - having the temporary category is not that usefull.
It is useful to have place for those are not official yet, and they are not mixed with official. Other can be added when needed.
Example of list is what Christian Morales Vega is publishing on mail ...
Example was just to tell that we can do with wiki a lot more then we do now, and, in a process, make life of everyone much easier. It was not meant as specific advice what you should do :)
I am not sure I understood - my motivation behind Categories is that I run a script pull everything from defined category, add it to git repo and once a month I can generate a diff shows me, what have happened to write a report.
For reports about changes you can use your own watch list and monitor it with Atom feed. You will know about changes as soon as they happen. I have to check, but I think that recent wiki versions allow to put whole category in a watch list. When you going to check feed is up to you. I prefer notification as soon as change happen, as that prevents accumulation of changes after one that I want to correct. If git format is easier on you then you can use that, but number of categories is not a problem :)
If you're asking for making wiki pages with Factory statuses or so, this is probably offtopic here. But I'm sure those pages can be under Category:Packaging ;-)
Right, it was just example :)
Regards Michal Vyskocil
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