Spins Pages

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Ian Weller wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:38:32PM +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> this is a question on Spins pages and recurring releases. We would like 
>> to have one page per Spin, yet maintain the history of the page per release.
>>
> You could either do [[XFCE Spin (F11)]] or [[F11 XFCE Spin]], I think.
> 
>> We were thinking we can use one page, and add Spins_Fedora_11, 
>> Spins_Fedora_10, etc categories, and link to the release specific 
>> revision at the top of the page.
>>
> How about [[F11 Spins]]? We don't like using 'Fedora' in wiki name
> titles because they kinda seem redundant with 'fedora' already being in
> the domain name.
> 

These would just create a link to a page, won't they? This doesn't 
really allow us to track the Spins with (for example) categories such as 
Category:Incomplete_Spins, Category:Spins_Ready_For_SIG, etc. Then for a 
given release, say 11, we'd want accepted spins to be aggregated into 
some kind of page we do not have to update ourselves, since we're 
already doing the categorization and changes. However, this just 
reflects how we think about it now, if there's any other ideas of how to 
automate more of this in a different manner... ;-)

Anyway, the other question we have is concerning recurring releases; say 
/XFCE_Spin has been accepted for Fedora 11, and is added to category 
Spins_F11, we wouldn't want the F11 version of the page to be changed, 
and we would want it to be retrievable, too. However, if we create 
separate pages; XFCE_Spin_F11, XFCE_Spin_F12, there's no way to tell 
whether this spin has gone through the process before except for a 
manual search on the Wiki visiting each page and tracking down whether 
it has gone through the process properly.

Bearing in mind that Spin SIG approval only happens once, and Board 
trademark approval only happens once, these recurring releases would 
gain with not having to create release-specific Spins pages.

Again, I'm open to suggestions but here's what we came up with thusfar. 
If XFCE_Spin is accepted for Fedora 11, we add the page to 
Category:Spins_F11, and once Fedora 11 is released, we add it to 
Category:Incomplete_Spins as well. Noted, we add a link on the top of 
the XFCE_Spin page linking to the release specific revision of that 
page, so that it's release-specific version of the Spins page is 
retrievable.

I hope this clarifies some of our thoughts and questions,

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip