On Sat 03 Apr 2021 at 11:26:51 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, April 02, 2021 01:11:01 AM Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > Thank you, Dr./Mr. Kramer, for taking time to post your kind inputs. > > To me, the best possible option would be an organisationally hosted > > wiki site with strict posting guidelines, and pages as described. > > Just a followup: > > I wasn't aware (until very recently when I saw it mentioned by somebody else > in this thread, iirc) that there is a Debian wiki.
Amazing! An experienced and knowledgable user didn't know about our wiki. > I've done a verly little investigation into that, but could share more of > that > information if you'd like. Some tidbits: > > * the wiki is at https://wiki.debian.org/ > > * there is a sandbox at https://wiki.debian.org/WikiSandBox -- it is not > quite what I am used to as a sandbox as it recommends against creating new > pages (other than ones that would include new content) Trivial. > * you can see a list of (some of?) the exising pages at > https://wiki.debian.org/Wiki > > * I get the idea that, at least to a certain extent, some of the people > contributing to it want to organize things (at a high level) based on Debian > distribution, e.g., Jessie, Stretch, Buster Really? Name and pack drill? > I would like to see the content well organized an focused as well -- I can > envisage the need to label the content of pages with notes (metadata?) that > indicate which Debian distribution the note(s) apply to, maybe which > distribution it became effective with, as well as which distribution it > became > obsolete with (all of which on an "if known" basis. I can also see the need > for some similar metadata that is "orthogonal" to that -- for example, things > like which desktop they apply to (KDE, GNOME, ...) or whether it applies to X > windows or Wayland, but then that information also needs to designate which > Debian distributions it applies to. These things you see a great need for? It's a wiki. Guess what? -- Brian.
