On 4/6/2014 4:12 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > While I somewhat agree with both the points of Furkan and Alexandre, I > am not sure which way you are leaning: Should we pull off the band-aid > or not? And do no other committers have an opinion here?
One of the strengths (and weaknesses!) of the old wiki is that anyone who asks for permission is allowed to edit it. If I filter my email archive for 'wikidiffs' so I can see old wiki change notifications, most of the changes in the last year have come from committers. It would be incorrect to state that non-committer contributions are completely trivial, though. A few of them have been very active. Only committers can change the reference guide ... which is reasonable because it's published as official documentation. I am inclined to vote that we take these steps: 1) Lock down the old wiki, at least temporarily. 2) Improve the SEO of the reference guide. 3) Beef up the reference guide with *relevant* info from the wiki. Further steps will require some thought. For wiki pages which directly correspond to reference guide pages, it's reasonable and appropriate to phase them out after making sure that everything important gets transferred to the reference guide. There is other content in the wiki, though. One of my larger contributions to the old wiki is the page about performance problems. While I do think this an appropriate topic to put in the reference guide, there might be things stated there that the project does not want to declare in an official voice. I like to think that those things are important, so I'd hate to see them disappear entirely. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPerformanceProblems Perhaps we can re-purpose the old wiki into a supplement to the reference guide, once again open to modification by contributors. Tips/tricks and information that's not suitable for official documentation can live there. This MIGHT make it a natural staging ground for improvements and large-scale changes to the reference guide, both from the community and committers. Thanks, Shawn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
