[Nix-dev] wiki and utf-8 characters

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 09:54:09AM +0200, phreedom at yandex.ru wrote:
> On Воскресенье 24 марта 2013 01:22:25 Marc Weber wrote:
> 
> > > Not everybody is a developer
> > 
> > Right - so if people are not familiar with github, do you think people could
> > be told to just send their contributions to the mailinglist - because - we
> > want to review them
> > - adding it to a git wiki and pushing is fast for developpers
> > 
> > As alternative those people could just be told to  use the bug tracker.
> > 
> > If we want to lower barrier for contirbution, what about adding a comment
> > section people can write anything to ? See php.net/any-php-function - works
> > great.
> > We then can review the comments and change the wiki
> 
> For casual contributors, we could provide ikiwiki instance and pull from it 
> periodically. I guess it can also be set up so that someone is notified when 
> there's a new commit. Thus for people who want to see the latest official/vetted 
> documentation, we have 1 branch/repo, and for people who want to edit/see 
> staging area, we have another. Could this be a viable workflow?

FWIW, I dislike ikiwiki for its perlness and overengineering. Long ago I used
it, and I regret that. :)