On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:47:04 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Greg Wooledge [2025-05-20 16:49:28] wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 16:38:16 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> In contrast my proposition means that when a new release happens we just > >> get a new set of pages, which start empty (this part can be done fully > >> automatically) and can be filled progressively, which should be much > >> more amenable to crowdsourcing. > > > > I have multiple problems with this proposal. > > > > 1) Most pages don't actually become obsolete with a new Debian release. > > The number of incompatible changes in a new release is usually > > pretty small. > > > > 2) Re-creating the *entire* wiki every time there's a new release is > > a stupidly ridiculous amount of effort. Not just the initial act > > of moving creating a whole new versioned page for every existing > > nonversioned page -- which by *itself* is already ridiculous -- > > but then there's the step of rewriting the whole wiki. > > > > Rewriting. > > The. > > Whole. > > Wiki. > > > > Do you even hear yourself? > > > > 3) Who's this "crowd" that you're planning to "crowdsource" all of > > this work onto? > > I'm quite aware of these holes in my proposal. > I do think they can be plugged to some extent. > E.g. when a page doesn't exist but a page for an older version does > exist, we could show that older page with a note saying something like > "this is for version FOO so it may be outofdate, but maybe it's still > relevant".
Oh, now you're adding a fourth point: 4) You want to rewrite not only the WIKI CONTENT, but the WIKI ENGINE too. Yeah, sure, we'll just replace the wiki engine with one that has this feature you just made up (bearing in mind that the current wiki engine is already overdue for replacement or some other means of dealing with it, because it requires Python 2 which means it's stuck on Debian 10 and is no longer able to receive security updates). And then we'll hire a couple dozen interns to rewrite the whole wiki content every couple years. What could possibly go wrong??
