New Wiki (Was: New Howto)

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> The proposed new wiki was to be a global Mac OS Forge documentation
> wiki, not a MacPorts-specific wiki. I'm still not a fan of the idea.
> Do we really want to spend the time and energy converting content
> from the MacPorts Trac wiki to a Mac OS Forge MediaWiki when we have
> more important things we could be doing?

I think that's something of a straw man argument, Ryan.  First off, if  
the conversion chore is genuinely distasteful then you can always  
elect not to do it but simply point others who ARE willing at your raw  
material and say "if you want to pretty that up and convert it, be our  
guest!"  If the end result ends up looking a lot nicer, or is easier  
to find, you then simply change which one is now "live" and deprecate  
the other, either quickly or over time.  Second, there just aren't  
that many howtos right now, at least not in comparison to what could  
be, and if there's a time to bear any conversion cost then that time  
is now, not later after there are dozens of the things.  I think a  
simple evaluation, as I just proposed to Martin, is a reasonable next  
step at this point.  How are you sure you're using the best tool for  
the job if you haven't even tried other alternatives?

- Jordan