[Nix-dev] wiki and utf-8 characters

[Cillian de Róiste]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell
<viric at viric.name> wrote:
> 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. :)

Another popular wiki with a git backend is http://gitit.net/ which
happens to be written in haskell and is already in nixpkgs (as is
ikiwiki). It looks quite nice, can anyone vouch for it?