Re: [boost] Moving wiki/Guidelines/WarningsGuidelines

On 2 August 2018 at 10:42, Stefan Seefeld via Boost wrote:

On 2018-08-02 04:18 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost wrote:

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On 2 August 2018 at 10:09, Stefan Seefeld via Boost wrote:

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On 2018-08-02 03:59 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost wrote:

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Paul Bristow suggested [1]

"We might also re-host this document somewhere on github/boostorg?"

[1] https://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2018/07/242617.php

I'd like to edit and move the wiki page away from Trac.

IMHO, it is reasonable to host it not on GitHub wiki but on boost.org along other guidelines, for example, at https://www.boost.org/development/warnings.html

- It is easy to update website via pull requests. - Any updates would be a subject of some review at least

Thoughts? Objections?

I don't think this is a good idea, as it contributes to the proliferation of locations to look for to find information (or to contribute updates), which will also result in duplicate (in the best case) or contradictory (in the worst case) information.

You've lost me. I'm suggesting *single* place to maintain all the common Boost development guidelines, namely boost.org.

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Ideally, boost.org should consist of a *very* small number of static pages (a hub, really) with links to other pages, such as project-specific websites (e.g. http://boostorg.github.io/<project>),

Clearly, we have a hierarchy of the recommendations here: - common guidelines - library-specific guidelines based on/extending the common ones

I'm talking about common guidelines here, not the library-specific ones.

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or the wiki (https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki).> Unsubscribe & other changes:

I suggest to not to maintain common guidelines on GitHub wiki or anywhere else - Wiki is volatile, too easy to edit by too many or too easy to sneak unwanted edits.

I think it's a judgment call, really:

Yes, it is.

I see your point, and I agree: on the one hand we have version-controlled (relatively static) content, on the other we have easy-to-change volatile content.

If it were for truly static content, I would wholeheartedly agree with you. But a document describing how to deal with (compiler-specific) warnings is inherently a moving target, and thus will quickly get stale unless it's been actively maintained (read: updated regularly). And if it's hard to change, people will just add their own guidelines elsewhere...

My judgement was that editing documentation via a GitHub pull request is easy and convenient. Since, I'm not even close to a position to tell where to host stuff, I'll wait for the PSC or other authoritative voice to tell where it should go. I just offered help to migrate the wiki page content to .html file in boostorg/website. Actually, it would be better for my own health if I could migrate it to Markdown ;) In fact, I would like to see https://github.com/boostorg/docs where all static documentation is maintained in form of plain Markdown files. That, however, is a topic for another hardly-ever-ending thread... Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net