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  • From: Guillaume Rousse
  • Subject: [Cooker] Wiki reorganisation for packaging stuff
  • Date: 24 May 2005 21:40:06 -0000

I've spent some times reorganising Wiki's content related to packaging, with the following intents:

- better content distribution
90% of original content is still located in old monolithic rpm howto, making finding information uneasy. Distributing the information in more smaller parts should help locate pertinent information quicker.


- separation of concern
Building a package is a different issue than uploading it on the cluster. Keeping them separated will help different audience to find the information that is relevant to them.


- redudancy diminution
Informations about various tools were dispatched in many places. Using some topic-based organisation, such as all tools togethers, help reduce redundancy and incoherencies.


Of course, this works led me to make some discussable choices. For instance, I preferred to group all potential errors in one single page, including rpmlint errors that had their own page before. My reasoning was that beginners usually have trouble guessing what is causing the error, and they should have the answers directly, instead of first guessing where to look for it. I know rpmlint is usually easy to figure, but let think at autotools...

As always, comments welcome.

John, I found quite common inconsistencies between the pages, such as the heading level used for the title, the depth of the TOC, the use of parenthesis for changelog, etc... Isn't it time for a WikiGuideline too
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Anything you purchase will get stuck and hang on the edge of the rack
-- Murphy's Laws on Vending Machines n°4?




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