Re: Some notes on the Wiki

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@netspace.net.au>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Michael Cieslinski wrote:
> 
>>I also could convert parts of the ggcinternals manual into wiki pages.
>>But only if there is a consensus about this being the way to go.
> 
> I'm sure it's the wrong way to go.  I find a properly formatted and 
> indexed book far more convenient for learning about substantial areas of 
> compiler internals, or for finding what some particular macro is specified 
> to do, than a wiki.  And since some people seem to think the internal 
> manual is of no use: it's the first place I refer to for information on 
> the areas of internals it covers; after that source code and mailing list 
> archives, the wiki very rarely.
> 
> I think the wiki is certainly useful for rough notes such as 
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/general%20backend%20cleanup>, synthesised from 
> mailing list discussions.
> 
> It may be useful as an intermediate step in putting together 
> reverse-engineered information about internals in order to specify it 
> properly in the internals manual - but only provided authorship and 
> copyright assignment information is rigorously tracked as required by the 
> FSF.

Just put in a clause that copyright of all additions automatically
reverts to FSF.