[Scummvm-devel] Wiki feedback (was: ScummVM loadable modules)

[yotam barnoy]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:

>
> Am 03.03.2010 um 07:39 schrieb yotam barnoy:
>
> > As you can tell, I'm really not well versed with wiki stuff :) I
> > also just joined it, and I didn't know how to get the user template
> > thingie. Actually I still don't. How do I do it?
> >
> > That developers' bios page is so cool - I love the map!
>
> It has some problems, though. Like, how to update it. Plus, some
> people were added in the past without being asked for permission,
> which is bad. Finally, the map is IMO a nice toy, but in the end, not
> very useful; i.e. I am fine keeping it, but I feel that almost
> everything else in our Wiki is more important :).


Agreed. Not saying it's useful, just cool :)  It should probably be at the
bottom of a bios page as an extra rather than the top.



>
> > It'd be really nice if there were easy, clear links to all that
> > stuff. I think the wiki should provide as much useful information
> > for developers as possible as easily as possible.
>
> The great thing about a Wiki is: Everybody on the team can contribute.
> You think something should be better written, better explained, linked
> from more places? Just do it, don't wait for somebody else to do it
> for you :).
>

OK. Just getting feedback for my suggestions should be helpful in seeing
whether they're good ideas or bad ones.


>
> The developer bios page, could for example be linked to from the
> developer central. We could also transform it into a new "People"
> page, or instead have the "People" page link to it.
>
>
Yes. I think people is better.


>
> > So perhaps a developer's navigation bar on the left could lead to a
> > Todo page, to the main developer's center page, and to the bios so a
> > developer could easily find who's working on what. Those are the
> > things I can think of right now. So maybe one bar for developers and
> > one for users?
>
> You mean, split the "navigation" box (which is above "tools",
> "search", "toolbox") into two? One labeled "user navigation" and one
> "developer navigation" (or something like that) ?
>
>
Navigation is a bit extraneous, no? 'for users' and 'for developers' should
do I think...?

Yotam
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