[ckan-dev] wiki page moved - wrongly?

Fri Mar 18 11:39:45 UTC 2011

Hi Stefano,

This was as a result of some discussion at the CKAN sprint on Wednesday, 
apologies for not running it by the list first. Here's the reasoning 
though...

We really want the wiki at wiki.ckan.net to support the whole user 
community of CKAN. Of course much of that community is data-oriented but 
some of the community also like to build tools off the REST APIs or do 
some developer-related things. We therefore want to add tutorial-style 
community documentation to the community wiki for some of the simpler 
developer and API type tasks. At the same time we would like to 
encourage more of the community to feel they can contribute to CKAN's 
development and as the codebase gets simpler the tutorials improve I 
hope that can happen.

Of course we've already got the documentation at 
http://packages.python.org/ckan/ for more detailed developer 
documentation and we intend to make that more technical and expand it 
whilst leaving the more introductory/tutorial style documentation on the 
community pages. Having a third source for documentation in the form of 
the Trac wiki then seemed to be a bit silly because it would effectively 
be duplicating information in one of the other two sources.

I can see how just seeing that the branching policy had moved could lead 
you to conclude that we were taking over the community wiki for 
developer tasks but I want to reassure you that that isn't the intention 
at all, rather that we want to make the way CKAN works clearer and more 
accessible to the wider community.

Cheers,

James

On 17/03/11 16:50, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> today the wiki page http://trac.ckan.org/wiki/BranchingPolicy was moved
> to http://wiki.ckan.net/Mercurial
>
> This is wrong IMHO, because ckan.net is for community (e.g. *.ckan.net
> data catalogs) and not for development. The right place for development
> of CKAN software is ckan.org and thus the original location looks much
> better to me.
>
> Can we revert this move?
>
> Ciao
> steko
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ckan-dev mailing list
> ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/attachments/20110318/d0e6cd17/attachment-0001.html>