Re: A GNU Binutils wiki

[Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>]

On 11/2/22 13:41, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Not to be negative but what type of content is going to go in the Wiki?
> 
> Over at RTEMS, I've become quite disillusioned with Wikis for most
> content. Not being integrated with the source processes, version
> control, and releases, it can become out of sync and out of date.
> It's usually much easier to keep documents in any markup system
> up to date than a wiki.

I feel the same way about wiki's and confluence in general. If there isn't a team on top of it,
pages do go out of sync and go stale over time. Having something in-tree that can get exported to "wiki format"
would be nice.

That would sort out the permissions issue and the vandalization.

> 
> This ignores that Wikis get vandalized and have spam account attempts
> which doesn't seem to happen with source code in git (or cvs).
> 
> What's the process for ensuring any links in the wiki don't break?
> 
> What review processes are going to be used for content?
> 
> What's the driving content need for a wiki?
> 
> Sorry to be negative. I like the "control" in source code control
> and a wiki is lacking there.
> 
> --joel
> 
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 6:49 AM Mike Frysinger via Binutils <
> binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 01 Nov 2022 16:47, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote:
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>>>> https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/EditorGroup
>>>> seems like it's already configured the same
>>>
>>> It is.
>>>
>>>> can someone copy & paste the list from gdb to binutils ?
>>>
>>> Now done.  Mike - could you check that I did it correctly please ?
>>> (This is my first time administering a wiki...)
>>
>> i was able to edit the homepage, so lgtm
>> -mike
>>