Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-11-10 Thread jesus2099
+1 docs in git with Markdown -  PATATE12   jesus2099   GOLD MASTER KING   FAKE E-MAIL ADDRESS  -- View this message in context: http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/Changes-to-our-style-process-Important-tp4668864p4669298.html Sent from the MusicBrainz - Style mailing list archive at

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-11-01 Thread Daniel Sobey
Using git as a wiki replacement can be a good idea and can be easy to do if you know how. Github encourages you to use a text document using markdown. Markdown is a wiki like language and can be easily converted into html. Editing a markdown in github is just as easy as editing a wiki page. First

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-31 Thread caller#6
On 10/30/2014 05:58 PM, Ben Ockmore wrote: I do still think that putting it all on Git is a good idea though (especially given the online editing capabilities of GH and BB). Just not TT templates, and separate from the server code. For anybody interested, keep an eye on

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-30 Thread Paul Taylor
On 29/10/2014 23:24, Ian McEwen wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:55:53PM +, Tom Crocker wrote: Out of interest, does this mean we're getting rid of the distinction between official style guidelines and docs? Or are docs still open to community editing? Any moving things into the codebase

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-30 Thread Paul Taylor
On 30/10/2014 13:54, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Paul Taylor ij...@fastmail.fm mailto:ij...@fastmail.fm wrote: I disagree, although one person is currently has now been put in charge of the style process this is a new change that may need

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-30 Thread Ben Ockmore
Yeah, I have to agree with Paul, making documentation editors edit HTML templates is an unnecessary complication, when there are plenty of existing plain text to HTML conversion systems which would work just as well. AFAIK our current system doesn't require any data from the rest of the server,

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-29 Thread Calvin Walton
On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 23:00 +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Am 2014-10-23 22:27, schrieb Frederic Da Vitoria: 2014-10-23 22:08 GMT+02:00 Robert Bihlmeyer ro...@orcus.priv.at: Can we get versioned (or time stamped) style documents? Am I missing something or wouldn't the wiki history

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-29 Thread Ben Ockmore
I very much agree with this. While having only one person editing docs may be a good idea for ensuring consistency and quality, it also rules out the main advantage of storing docs in a wiki. It'd probably simplify things if all the docs were written in Markdown or RST, then displayed as static

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-29 Thread Ian McEwen
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:14:39PM -0400, Calvin Walton wrote: On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 23:00 +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Am 2014-10-23 22:27, schrieb Frederic Da Vitoria: 2014-10-23 22:08 GMT+02:00 Robert Bihlmeyer ro...@orcus.priv.at: Can we get versioned (or time stamped) style

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-29 Thread Tom Crocker
Out of interest, does this mean we're getting rid of the distinction between official style guidelines and docs? Or are docs still open to community editing? ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-29 Thread Ian McEwen
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:55:53PM +, Tom Crocker wrote: Out of interest, does this mean we're getting rid of the distinction between official style guidelines and docs? Or are docs still open to community editing? Any moving things into the codebase doesn't change the 'community editing'

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-26 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Am 2014-10-23 22:27, schrieb Frederic Da Vitoria: 2014-10-23 22:08 GMT+02:00 Robert Bihlmeyer ro...@orcus.priv.at: Can we get versioned (or time stamped) style documents? Am I missing something or wouldn't the wiki history answer this need? Style is currently split into more than 30 wiki

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-23 Thread lixobix
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:25 AM, David Gasaway lt; dave@ gt; wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren lt; reosarevok@ gt; wrote: tl;dr: Style system has changed, new info at http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Proposals Hi. How

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
On 2014-10-23 16:34 lixobix wrote: Is there a way to get email updates when the blog is updated? I don't think so. But http://blog.musicbrainz.org/feed/ is an RSS feed, that most popular mail user agents know how to handle. There are also phone apps for twitchers. See

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
On 2014-10-23 00:30, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: For checking what changes have happened, we'll be posting on the blog (category Style) a list of implemented changes every two weeks (more or less). Can we get versioned (or time stamped) style documents? That would make it possible to look

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-23 Thread Rachel Dwight
On Oct 23, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Robert Bihlmeyer ro...@orcus.priv.at wrote: On 2014-10-23 00:30, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: For checking what changes have happened, we'll be posting on the blog (category Style) a list of implemented changes every two weeks (more or less). Can we get

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-23 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2014-10-23 22:08 GMT+02:00 Robert Bihlmeyer ro...@orcus.priv.at: On 2014-10-23 00:30, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: For checking what changes have happened, we'll be posting on the blog (category Style) a list of implemented changes every two weeks (more or less). Can we get versioned

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-22 Thread David Gasaway
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr: Style system has changed, new info at http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Proposals Hi. How should an editor keep abreast of style changes under the new system? -- -:-:- David K. Gasaway -:-:- Email:

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-22 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:25 AM, David Gasaway d...@gasaway.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr: Style system has changed, new info at http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Proposals Hi. How should an editor keep abreast of style

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-20 Thread lixobix
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote Hi! So, this has already been posted to the blog, but for those here who don't read the blog, I'll repost: At the MusicBrainz Summit last month in Copenhagen, one of the topics to be discussed was the state of the style guidelines and style process. One thing

[mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-10-19 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
Hi! So, this has already been posted to the blog, but for those here who don't read the blog, I'll repost: At the MusicBrainz Summit last month in Copenhagen, one of the topics to be discussed was the state of the style guidelines and style process. One thing those present agreed on was that the