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Re: Help migrating wwwdocs from CVS to SVN
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:15:27PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Christopher Faylor
><cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:21:47PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>>>On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> I'm sure it's a heretical, already-discussed notion but I have to
>>>> wonder why CVS isn't adequate for this type of thing, especially
>>>> given the amount of work required to convert.
>>>
>>>Not heretical at all, at least from my perspective. In terms of the
>>>tool itself CVS is rather adequate -- for me personally, at least. ;-)
>>>
>>>However, other, and especially newer, contributors, are regularily
>>>running into "Do I have write access to the web pages?", "How do I
>>>access the web pages?", "Yet another tool I need to use?" etc., and
>>>having one, consistent system in place really should simplify things,
>>>I hope.
>>
>> Another heretical notion (and one I can't believe I'm suggesting): Have
>> you considered just putting almost everything in wiki?
>
>I suggested this once, and even though i can make the wiki easily
>support texinfo formatting, it makes the FSF uncomfortable from a
>legal perspective to not have to sign copyright papers to edit the
>docs.
Ah. Ok. I'll be quiet now. Of course I'm not thinking of anything
that hasn't already been considered.
cgf