Packaging Guidelines

[Ian Weller]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:48:11PM -0500, Susan Lauber wrote:
> 1. There are a number of meeting minutes and IRC log pages.  Do these really
> need to be in the Packaging namespace (with a Category of Meeting Minutes)
> or should they be moved to the Meetings namespace (with a Category of
> Packaging)?
> note: you can have many categories but only one namespace per page.
> Meetings namespace is not searched by default.  Packaging namespace has
> extra access controls.
> 
I think they ought to go into Meeting: solely because of search
purposes. In addition, why would there need to be any extra limits on
who can edit the meeting pages? It's the same sort of thing with any
other meeting, right?

> 2. The file [[Packaging:OldJPackagePolicy]] has a warning at the top about
> being out of date (*Last Revised:* Monday Feb 12, 2007).  Can this go into
> the Archive namespace?  As I understand it we traditionally leave the old
> name the same when that happens.  If not, I will rename it in a way that
> helps identify it as old.
> 
Theoretically these should go in Archive. Not sure what to do about ACLs
though.

> 3.  The next step is Categories for the pages.  Which may also help with any
> additional renaming. Are there any suggestions or ideas already out there
> before I start making them up - er - examining content for logical category
> names?
> 
;)

Special:AllPages with the Categories namespace filter might help you
find existing categories.

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