Community help wikis per release

[Dean Sas]

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Ross Peoples wrote:
> Brent Saner wrote:
>> On 10/18/07, Ross Peoples <ubuntu.ross.peoples at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is just my two cents, and I don't know if this is what you guys are
>>> talking about, but here goes... I would really be cool if every page had
>>> a compatibility grid. The rows would list the flavors (Ubuntu, Kubuntu,
>>> Xubuntu, etc) and the columns would list the releases. 

How often on the wiki is a page applicable to Kubuntu and never to
Ubuntu given that all packages are installable regardless of initial
choice? I'm not sure that a matrix is required, and if it is I'm fairly
sure that it would take up more room than either a vertical or
horizontal list like:

Page applies to: Kubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10

>>> I don't know how difficult it would be to code something like that, but
>>> if you guys find this to be a good idea, I would be glad to help
>>> implement it.

The spec [0] suggests that the QA system should be implemented as a
macro, a brief howto is available at [1]. Phil Bull has also done some
work at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Philbull/Test which I think works fine
and is usable today.

Whichever way this is implemented, it would be nice to have some buttons
to click to add the required information, but the same could be said for
 other basic wiki features like linking.

>> >From what I understand from developers, comparison matrices get UGLY from a
>> coding perspective. If we have some XML gurus, I bet they could hash
>> something out but most people end up doing these sort of things by hand. I
>> really like the way you're thinking, though- graphical representation of
>> compatibility instead of only tagging.

The system docs are written in XML so there's a number of us proficient
with its usage, I'm not sure what XML brings to the table here though...

> Well, if you could modify the source code of moinmoin, couldn't you just
> insert a piece of php code that generates an html table based on the
> checkbox matrix? I'm sure there's a way to put the compatibility
> information into a sql table and read by the php code.

MoinMoin uses neither PHP or SQL, it uses python and flat files instead.

Cheers,
Dean

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpWikiQualityAssurance
[1]
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnMacros#head-7c57db7e2451458a42840f17268344df06492a2e
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