[mythtv-users] Wiki Week - an appeal

Stephen Boddy stephen.boddy at btinternet.com
Thu Aug 3 21:25:14 UTC 2006


On Thursday 03 August 2006 22:14, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough! To be fair I did point out earlier that I'd never gotten into the 
whole wiki editing thing. Hopefully someone with a more indepth understanding 
can come up with a good alternative that does map well to a wiki.
-- 
Steve Boddy


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