Re: About the Wiki

Looks like a cool suggestion.
But it is running on Linux.

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:49 PM, James Kovacs <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I agree with Pierre Henri. Having the wiki be an editable version of the
> NHibernate docs would lower the bar for people contributing to the
> documentation. This would be a good thing. A quick Google revealed
> DocBookWiki, which is wiki software specifically designed to display and
> edit DocBook online. Rather than bulk importing/exporting DocBook->HTML,
> DocBookWiki does it on the fly and stores its content in DocBook format.
>
> http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/
>
> It sounds promising, but I've only read the intro page and not actually
> tried it out.
>
> Personally I think that:
>
> http://docs.nhibernate.org
>
> would be a lot easier to remember than:
>
> http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/1.2/reference/en/html_single/
>
> IMHO I think docs.nhibernate.org makes more sense than wiki.nhibernate.org.
> Wiki is an implementation detail. Docs describes what it is.
>
> James
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> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Pierre Henri Kuaté <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  We had a wiki a while ago (Confluence IIRC), but after the merging with
>> hibernate.org, most of its articles where integrated in the current
>> documentation.
>>
>> There are basically two options to start using one again:
>> - (Continue to) use the current Hibernate wiki. Yes, there is one :) But
>> it doesn't contain much NHibernate material.
>> - Install our own wiki at either nhibernate.sourceforge.net or
>> wiki.nhibernate.org (that's where the old one was).
>> As far as I am concerned each of these options have their pros and cons:
>> Using the Hibernate wiki would allow a better integration of the
>> documentation (one website with everything). Hosting the wiki separately
>> would allow choosing the software we want...
>>
>> One of the main action aside for hosting the wiki is putting some content
>> in it since an empty wiki can be quite intimidating. Also, it seems that
>> many would like to have the same documentation they have in the reference in
>> that wiki (so that they can quickly edit it). This will also require some
>> work to port the DocBook version to the wiki and keep them in sync (ie: port
>> the edits back to the DocBook version).
>>
>> Something that could ease and speed up that process would be to have a
>> wiki that support import/export from/to DocBook. I quickly googled it and it
>> seems that there are a few tools that could be used...
>>
>> Pierre Henri.
>>
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 7/3/08, Jon Stelly <[email protected]>* wrote:
>>
>> From: Jon Stelly <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [NHibernate-development] Aligning with Hibernate versioning
>> To: "the NHibernate development list" <
>> [email protected]>
>> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 11:20 PM
>>
>> I'd like to second the wiki idea.  I think API-level documentation is
>> great, and I wouldn't want to lose what's there in that CHM file but a Wiki
>> where we could better capture some guidance, examples, etc... would go a
>> long way to making NHibernate easier to learn for beginners.  I've also had
>> the same thought "I'd like to expand on this description a bit" but I don't
>> have the motivation to download source and submit a patch (call me lazy).
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 2008/7/2 Will Shaver <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> What we need is an actual Wikipedia style Wiki for docs. There have been
>>>> multiple times while reading the documentation that I've thought, "that's
>>>> wrong, and I would fix it right here if I could... but firing up an xml
>>>> editor and re-compiling it is too much effort."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok you and the community will have it ;)
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