[mythtv-users] Wiki Week - an appeal

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Aug 3 21:14:45 UTC 2006


On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Stephen Boddy wrote:
> Having read the post by f-myth-users at media.mit.edu, I'm sorted of leaning 
> toward his idea of having the version branches. i.e. (I realize the URL's 
> might be illegal, it's just an example)
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manual:Daily_Use
> becomes
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/v0.19/User_Manual:Daily_Use
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/svn/User_Manual:Daily_Use
> then, when 0.20 is released
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/svn/User_Manual:Daily_Use
> is copied to
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/v0.20/User_Manual:Daily_Use
> 
> It seems that it would a quick way (if it's actually possible) of snapshotting 
> the wiki as it relates to a specific version.

It's going to be very difficult to version a MediaWiki like that.  You
*definitely* don't want to do it in that specific way, making
*everything* a subpage to v0.20.

Cheers,
-- jra
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