Re: About the Wiki

I saw PHP and figured it could run on a Windows box. I didn't read farther
to see the other dependencies. Too bad.

James
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On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Ayende Rahien <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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>> James Kovacs, B.Sc., M.Sc., MCSD, MCT
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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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