From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17165 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2005 23:00:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 17139 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2005 23:00:32 -0000 Received: from h-68-164-203-246.nycmny83.covad.net (HELO dberlin.org) (68.164.203.246) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:00:32 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (HELO localhost) by dberlin.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 8060329; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:00:27 -0400 Subject: Re: please update the gcj main page From: Daniel Berlin To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: Tom Tromey , Bryce McKinlay , Ranjit Mathew , "John M. Gabriele" , java@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050714170120.42741.qmail@web80903.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <42D763A1.2060608@gmail.com> <42D7D646.8010209@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:00:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1122850827.32467.42.camel@linux.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg01275.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 00:30 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Tom Tromey wrote: > >> The FAQ is badly in need of an update - in fact, it should be moved > >> over to the Wiki (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCJ) in order to be easier > >> to update and maintain. > > Great idea, I agree. > > We've had a lot of trouble with bit-rot of the main pages over the > > years. Moving to the wiki might help, at least that way folks could > > more easily fix their own problems. > > We may to want to wait until we hear about the outcome of discussion > on the copyright (assignment) aspects of the Wiki vs wwwdocs and gcc/doc, We are not the first nor the last project to have a wiki that needs to move documentation from the wiki to the print. They all simply take the wikipedia approach: Make it very clear right near the button necessary to submit changes that you ar enot to be submitting things you didn't write, that all pages are licensed under the GFDL, etc. > or we may be in troubles at some point in the future when we try to move > documentation around. Just like everyone else has had trouble? > > Gerald