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Re: [eclipse-dev] Platform tips and tricks wiki created
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I created https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535789 for this.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:51 PM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Monday, June 11, 2018, Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> I suggest we replace the wiki page by a documentation about how to
>>> contribute to this list, and create a dedicated TipProvider that reads this
>>> list directly to present it in the Tip of the Day dialog (with other tip
>>> providers).
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>> The strategy is to do it the other way around.. Editing wiki pages is
>> really easy, literally everybody can compile a tip in one or two minutes. It
>> is also a very easy source for a TipProvider. Periodically we can harvest
>> the wiki and move the evergreens to the "Tips and Tricks" html page.
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> I strongly disagree. The wiki is not an aryifact managed by the project and
> relying on it is not really safe as there is not much to prevent anyone to
> put faulty content in it. It's not guaranteed to be as up-to-date as
> documentation nor of sufficient quality.
> It's important that thos tips become real artifacts managed by the project,
> otherwise I think it's not suitable for the SDK.
> We must not only make things simple, but also keep high quality relying on
> consistent processes. Wiki doesn't meet those criteria IMHO.
> Instead, for simplicity, we may discuss putting the documentation repo on
> GitHub and using PRs.
>
> Cheers
>
>
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> Mickael Istria
> Eclipse IDE developer, for Red Hat Developers
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