New Howto

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

Hmm.  I don't disagree with any of your points made as general  
statements, but are you also saying that you think mediawiki would be  
an impediment to achieving those goals in some way?

- Jordan

On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Zav public wrote:

> Simple pages where you can read what to do and then do them are VERY  
> GOOD.
>
> I like simple and straightforwards.
>
> Also, how to recover from errors are very good.  I plan on having  
> virgin OS X installs set up to make sure these HowTos work from a  
> new install.
>
> - Zav
>
> On Jun 5, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Lorin Rivers wrote:
>>
>>> Awesome! I did not even know about these How To's.
>>>
>>> You know, it's actually kind of hard to find them, if you don't know
>>> about where they are in the first place. I think they deserve more
>>> prominence. There should be a link from the documentation area of
>>> the main MacPorts site to the HowTo's.
>>
>> I'm still of the opinion that we should install mediawiki on the site
>> and turn these "howtos" into full-blown, collaboratively maintained
>> reference pages worthy of wikipedia (but, unlike wikipedia, also free
>> to be relevant only in the context of projects hosted at macosforge).
>> What do other folks think?
>>
>> - Jordan
>>
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