Where to document KDE 4 features

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Tue Oct 16 15:27:56 BST 2007


On Tuesday 16 October 2007 6:18:10 am you wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Monday 15 October 2007 6:36:08 am Dominik Haumann wrote:
> > > On Monday 15 October 2007, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > > On Monday 15 October 2007 5:14 pm, Clarence Dang wrote:
> > > > > /trunk/www/sites/developer/development-versions/kde-features.xml
> > > >
> > > > A web view of that is:
> > > > http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-4.0-features.html
> > >
> > > It's good you are brining this up. Question is where we want to have
> > > this in the future. All the schedules & co were moved into the wiki.
> > > I've once written a small mediawiki extension which parses the
> > > kde-features.xml file and prints the results, that's basically what we
> > > had before. I believe this is a good idea, so I'm for still adding the
> > > features to that file. We just have to enable the extension.
> >
> > Since the KDE 4.0 features is currently empty, why do we need
> > to parse and xml file?  Why not just type directly into the wiki?
> >
> > I'm happy either way.
> 
> Pros for xml-file:
> - markup is done automatically
> - list is automatically sorted (e.g. if you switch from todo to done)
> 
> Further thoughts: It's a wiki, this means we have to protect the Features 
> page. Otherwise random people will misuse it and add their own wishes.
> 
> If we don't use the xml file, we should use some templates to make life 
> easier.
> 
Dominik,

Nobody has objected strongly to either solution.
So, why don't you decide and implement whatever you think is best.
But we need something in-place rather soon :)

-Allen




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