On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 19:21:53 +1200 Kent Fredric <ken...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 12:39:43 -0500 > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > I don't care that we have a wiki, but can we please look into > > killing mediawiki and look at something with a git backend? It > > would be very nice to be able to edit wiki pages in markdown or > > another similar format and use git to control the changes instead > > of editing in a browser. > > 1. Who are the primary beneficiaries of this suggestion?: > > a. People with expert knowledge of development systems and people > with Gentoo Privileges > > b. End users who may not be experts, in all things development, but > may be able to contribute and consume content. > > 2. What compromises in flexibility does this create? Eg: Do suggested > replacements have capacity to have arbitrary HTML and templating? > Or are they restricted to the terribly narrow featureset of Markdown? > > > If you're optimising for 1-a and your choice of compromise results in > a reduction in functionality with regards to clear, flexible, and > expressive content, it will be hard to sell me on the idea. > 3) The ability of someone with a sight disability, the actual ability to contribute to the project. We as a project should try make our documentation accessible to as broad an audience as possible. I know from personal experience and having worked with such a person, to make it possible to work with cli tools to be able to interact with normally browser only visual interfaces which are extremely poor to work with using a screen reader. At my work, I personally made a github python library and cli interface for github, and worked to create templates for a go-jira command line interface so a visually impaired co-worker could interact with those systems. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
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