Meeting minutes - today's Env-and-Stacks WG meeting (2013-11-19)

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 11/28/2013 10:23 AM, Honza Horak wrote:
> On 11/27/2013 11:54 PM, Petr Kovar wrote:
>> Hi Toshio,
>>
>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:43:23 -0800
>> Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 04:19:03PM +0100, Petr Kovar wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to see these best practices covered in our Fedora formal
>>>> documentation, hosted on docs.fedoraproject.org. Currently, there are
>>>> different HOWTOs and guides on the Fedora wiki, some of them are
>>>> outdated,
>>>> some are not, so instead having a single guide that would merge
>>>> content from
>>>> those wiki documents is something I would like to focus on.
>>>>
>>> I'm not certain if this would work well.  I do agree that the various
>>> places that you can find the documentation is confusing.  However, I
>>> think
>>> that putting something under docs.fp.o will just lead to:
>>> http://xkcd.com/927/
>>
>> Well, I'm not really suggesting to put any standards (or formal
>> guidelines)
>> on docs.fp.o. The Fedora wiki seems to be working pretty well for guys
>> maintaining the official guidelines in the Packaging: namespace, and
>> that's great. That being said, I think that using the wiki as a "dump
>> area"
>> for various documents with a very similar scope and target audience too
>> often ends up in having outdated and unmaintained wiki pages that are
>> just
>> misleading. That's exactly what we can see on the Fedora wiki, so
>> let's try
>> to improve that situation.
>
> While keeping other Petr's ideas untouched, one wild idea how to keep
> wiki pages with Packaging guidelines more accurate and up-to-date could
> be something as the following:
> * identify one person (or SIG group) responsible for maintaining a
> single wiki page in Packaging: namespace
> * add to every wiki page :
>     - name of responsible person/contact
>     - date of last review
> * for every Fedora release responsible people would be contacted
> (spammed) to make a fast review of the page (and solve potential
> inconsistencies in co-operation with FPC)
>
> That could work for (package|language)-specific guidelines, but may work
> badly for general packaging guidelines, since it's not obvious who
> should be the responsible subject (FPC itself?).
>
> Honza
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Many people were trying to fix unmaintained wiki pages. Responsible 
person for wiki page could work.

Marcela