Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC-wiki on CentOS site that moved

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Max Hetrick [mailto:maxhetrick AT verizon DOT net]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:55 PM
>To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BPC-wiki on CentOS site that moved
>
>Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
>> Yeah, speaking of which, I had a look at the CentOS-wiki and it seems you
>> have to apply for membership and whatnot to be able to add and maintain a
>> wiki-page there. I don't know how the BPC-wiki is with regard to this, ie
if
>> it's simpler. For now the howto will remain at the previously mentioned
url
>> on my own server.
>
>The process for contributing to the CentOS wiki is difficult, along with
>a community of admins that differ very much on what's considered
>on-topic and off-topic to post. Not only that, you have to go through a
>submission process for everything on a page-by-page basis. So, basically
>if you wanted to post something, you have to ask permission to have a
>page created and give you write access to that page.
>
>Once you contribute awhile, you're given some more rights, but you still
>feel compelled to ask permission before you just start creating pages.
>Given they have no set of standards for what they want authors and
>contributors to follow, you get folks criticizing of what should or
>should not be posted, leaving the author confused as to what he/she
>should be doing.
>
>Maybe you'll have better luck than I did there, but this is exactly why
>I left helping them out. Until they put some standards together for what
>they feel is on-topic articles, and get all their team members on board,
>to me it's not worth it. Many people have left the CentOS wiki project
>over the last year.

Ah, yeah, spot on. My idea was to also add stuff, tips and tricks that maybe
aren't quite obvious or fit in a straight-up howto, like the "Personal notes
and gotcha's"-paragraph I just recently added to the howto.

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/Sorin

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