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Re: [NHibernate-development] About the Wiki

Steve Wagner

2008-07-14

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Whats with this domain:

http://www.nhibernate.net/

It seems it is not reserved and it perfectly fits all needs :-)

I am also for a wiki based documentation and for a wiki based homepage
(like mono it dose) too.

Steve

James Kovacs schrieb:
> I agree with Pierre Henri. Having the wiki be an editable version of the
> NHibernate docs would lower the bar for people contributing to the
> documentation. This would be a good thing. A quick Google revealed
> DocBookWiki, which is wiki software specifically designed to display and
> edit DocBook online. Rather than bulk importing/exporting DocBook->HTML,
> DocBookWiki does it on the fly and stores its content in DocBook format.
>
> http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/
>
> It sounds promising, but I've only read the intro page and not actually
> tried it out.
>
> Personally I think that:
>
> http://docs.nhibernate.org
>
> would be a lot easier to remember than:
>
> http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/1.2/reference/en/html_single/
>
> IMHO I think docs.nhibernate.org <http://docs.nhibernate.org> makes more
> sense than wiki.nhibernate.org <http://wiki.nhibernate.org>. Wiki is an
> implementation detail. Docs describes what it is.
>
> James
> --
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> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Pierre Henri Kuaté <phkuate@(protected)
> <mailto:phkuate@(protected):
>
>   We had a wiki a while ago (Confluence IIRC), but after the merging
>   with hibernate.org <http://hibernate.org>, most of its articles
>   where integrated in the current documentation.
>
>   There are basically two options to start using one again:
>   - (Continue to) use the current Hibernate wiki. Yes, there is one :)
>   But it doesn't contain much NHibernate material.
>   - Install our own wiki at either nhibernate.sourceforge.net
>   <http://nhibernate.sourceforge.net> or wiki.nhibernate.org
>   <http://wiki.nhibernate.org> (that's where the old one was).
>   As far as I am concerned each of these options have their pros and
>   cons: Using the Hibernate wiki would allow a better integration of
>   the documentation (one website with everything). Hosting the wiki
>   separately would allow choosing the software we want...
>
>   One of the main action aside for hosting the wiki is putting some
>   content in it since an empty wiki can be quite intimidating. Also,
>   it seems that many would like to have the same documentation they
>   have in the reference in that wiki (so that they can quickly edit
>   it). This will also require some work to port the DocBook version to
>   the wiki and keep them in sync (ie: port the edits back to the
>   DocBook version).
>
>   Something that could ease and speed up that process would be to have
>   a wiki that support import/export from/to DocBook. I quickly googled
>   it and it seems that there are a few tools that could be used...
>
>   Pierre Henri.
>
>
>   --- On *Thu, 7/3/08, Jon Stelly /<jonstelly@(protected)
>   <mailto:jonstelly@(protected):
>
>      From: Jon Stelly <jonstelly@(protected)>>
>      Subject: Re: [NHibernate-development] Aligning with Hibernate
>      versioning
>      To: "the NHibernate development list"
>      <nhibernate-development@(protected)
>      <mailto:nhibernate-development@(protected)>>
>      Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 11:20 PM
>
>      I'd like to second the wiki idea. I think API-level
>      documentation is great, and I wouldn't want to lose what's there
>      in that CHM file but a Wiki where we could better capture some
>      guidance, examples, etc... would go a long way to making
>      NHibernate easier to learn for beginners. I've also had the
>      same thought "I'd like to expand on this description a bit" but
>      I don't have the motivation to download source and submit a
>      patch (call me lazy).
>
>      On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Fabio Maulo
>      <fabiomaulo@(protected):
>
>         2008/7/2 Will Shaver <will.shaver@(protected)
>         <mailto:will.shaver@(protected)>>:
>
>           What we need is an actual Wikipedia style Wiki for docs.
>           There have been multiple times while reading the
>           documentation that I've thought, "that's wrong, and I
>           would fix it right here if I could... but firing up an
>           xml editor and re-compiling it is too much effort."
>            
>
>
>         Ok you and the community will have it ;)
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