Re: wiki.d.o: SummerOfCode2009/KDE-based-packagemanager
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 18:02 -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Le April 3, 2009 03:10:17 am Frank Lin PIAT, vous avez écrit :
> > There is a kind of implicit rule on this wiki...
> > wiki pages are like packages, they are maintained by some Teams/People.
> > (DebianInstaller/* are managed by DI team, WiFi/* pages are managed by
> > Geoff Simons and a few others, DebianEdu/* are managed by Holger a few
> > others ...).
> > It doesn't prevents other people from contributing. But if the
> > maintainer don't like one's patch... well that person should try to
> > understand why his/her patch were rejected and talk to the maintainer.
>
> I see your parallel with packages, but Wiki pages aren't packages.
> That page used to have no edit restriction, so I didn't suggest a
> patch - I "committed" my changes directly.
The main difference I see is that the moderation is done after the
commit, not before.
> [..] Sune [..] reverted [the change]. So, I verified my changes,
> improved my version,
That was the right thing to do.
<my experience>
In case of conflict, I noticed that it help to split the contribution in
multiple commits, starting with the most important _and_ less intrusive
ones, finishing with the less important and more controversial ones.
All with good commits logs.
</my experience>
> > Note: the wiki changelog is a very effective communication tool, when
> > it's used as such. (i.e say what you do and why you did it).
> I could have used better edit summaries. My changes improve
> presentation, and note that part of the page (regarding PackageKit)
> deserves expansion.
>
> > P.S. Chealer, you can use a /Discussion page to submit you ideas.
> Since I currently can't edit the content page, I couldn't link to such a page.
Implicitly, my offer included the fact that I would have added the link.
Thanks,
Franklin
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YABM -Yet another bolder maintainer ;)
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