On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 16:15 -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/4/21 15:15, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm working on revamping the Documentation SIG wiki page, and
> > hoping to
> > present where we stand to the CentOS board at some point.
> > 
> > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Documentation
> > 
> > I'd like to have a set of core responsibilities. Proposal:
> > 
> > * Working with the Red Hat documentation folks on publishing
> > material
> > upstreamed from RHEL.
> > 
> > * Identifying, writing, and maintaining content aside from stuff
> > that
> > is intended for RHEL, whether that's in manuals or shorter form
> > wiki
> > material.
> > 
> > * Periodically auditing and pruning old and outdated documentation.
> > 
> > * Promoting CentOS documentation as a reliable source of
> > information
> > for CentOS and enterprise Linux in general.
> > 
> > * Working with translators to make documentation available in
> > languages
> > other than English.
> > 
> > * Working with other special interest groups on their documentation
> > needs and helping them create, maintain, and integrate their own
> > content.
> 
> I think this is covered under "reliable" and "pruning old and
> outdated", 
> but I'd love to see someone take charge of doing a complete audit of
> the 
> wiki and making it correct and authoritative. It has become a bit of
> a 
> pile of "might be right, sometimes" over the past decade, and it's 
> challenging to find anything in it.

Yeah, in my mind it's covered under that, but I think it's worth
calling that out specifically. Wikis inevitably accumulate cruft if
nobody is tending to them.

--
Shaun




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