Spins Pages

[Ian Weller]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:54:42AM +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 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... ;-)
> 
Well you can track them with the categories themselves. I'm not exactly
sure what you're saying/asking here.

> 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.
> 
I would say do it the XFCE_Spin way, then. And you can link to a
specific revision if you want (go to the history page, it's the link on
the timestamp that will show you that revision)

> 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.
> 
Perfect.

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