Lurking on maria-discuss when kids are asleep: Just wanted to say Good work Bryan, Daniel and the rest of you!
henrik On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Daniel Bartholomew <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > I have started (and over the course of the next week I will continue) > moving several pages from http://askmonty.org/wiki to > http://kb.askmonty.org > > With the Knowledgebase now in beta it is time to move the content over. > The procedure I plan on using for this is as follows: > > 1. Copy the content of a page from the wiki into the Knowledgebase. > 2. Add a link to the top of the wiki page notifying of the move and > giving a link to the new location of the page on the KB. > 3. Add a redirect to the webserver config which automatically sends you > to the KB page if you click on a link to the wiki page. > > I wanted to let you know about it now so that you are not surprised > when you click on a link in the wiki and end up in the Knowledgebase. > > After most of the pages which are slated to be moved have been moved I > will start deleting the pages from the wiki. The pages won't actually > be gone (because of MediaWiki's undelete functionality) but having them > officially deleted brings closure to the page and prevents it being > accidentally viewed and/or edited. > > The pages slated to be moved include all of the ones in the "Manual:" > namespace and several of the ones in the "MariaDB:" section. An easy > way to think of it is that all documentation-type pages on the wiki are > going to move to the Knowledgebase. > > Pages the developers use for planning releases (such as the 5.2 TODO > page) will not move. Pages developers use to document new features will > be moved when the developer indicates the page has become stable and > ready to be used as documentation. In the future, some features will > likely be documented first on the KB, but I'm sure there will always be > some which begin life on the wiki. > > The redirects will stay in place indefinitely since keeping them > around is easy and painless. > > The wiki will not go away, it is going to continue to be a site the > MariaDB devs can use for notes, plans, and so on. The look will also > change to better fit this mission. The corporate info, for example, has > already been moved to http://montyprogram.com so the navigation links > at the top of every page (About Us, Business, Partners, etc...) are > no-longer necessary. > > Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. > > Thanks. > > -- > Daniel Bartholomew > Monty Program - http://askmonty.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- email: [email protected] tel: +358-40-5697354 www: www.avoinelama.fi/~hingo book: www.openlife.cc _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-docs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-docs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
