On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 09:25 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:08:58PM -0700, > tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > > Quaid (also known as Karsten), > > > > I noticed your "Summary" comments, "pulling in the 0.8 page for now > > via transclusion; need to think about what should be on this page or > > is it a redirect or what?" > > Thanks for doing more thinking about it. :) > > > May I suggest that there needs to be a [[Practical OSS Exploration > > Stable]] that is a redirect to the last release, which, at the present > > time, is [[Textbook Release 0.8]]. > > There also needs to be another redirect page [[Practical OSS > > Exploration Development]], where "Development" is the alias for the > > version being improved, which, at the present time, would be > > [[Practical OSS Exploration 0.8.1]]. We have a page [[Textbook > > Roadmap]] that seems to have the appropriate links to the chapters > > that are available for modification to become [[Practical OSS > > Exploration 0.8.1]]. The table of links in [[Textbook Roadmap]] could > > be removed and a link to [[Practical OSS Exploration Development]] > > substituted. Then we'd be set to make changes. > > That makes sense to me. One change I recommend is that we rename > [[Textbook Release 0.8]] to the name you suggested, [[P OSS E > stable]]. Renaming automatically creates a redirect. (I'm also > making non-proper names/titles lower case, as is the MediaWiki > practice.) > > I'm going to draw that here with some arrows, then one of us can make > it happen on the wiki. For visual ease, I'll abbreviate "Practical > OSS Exploration" to "P OSS E" (which is visually confusing with our > "POSSE" acronym but not impossible to see around.) > > Also, how about cleaning up the naming all around? > > [[Textbook Release 0.8]] --_rename_--> [[P OSS E stable]] > [[P OSS E development]] --_redir_--> [[P OSS E 0.8.1]] > [[Textbook Roadmap]] --_rename_--> [[P OSS E textbook roadmap]] > > [[P OSS E textbook roadmap]] set of links either replaced with link to > [[P OSS E development]] or have the latter transcluded directly in to > the roadmap page. > > - Karsten
Remember also that the short URLs http://teachingopensource.org/{text,textbook} redirect to [[Textbook Redirect]], which is a trampoline that can be pointed wherever you want -- looks to me like you'll want it to point to [[P OSS E stable]]. -Chris _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
