Re: News 2009-08-31, documentation, wiki

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi, 

Am Montag, 28. September 2009 10:16:29 schrieb Thomas Schwinge:
> > The only thing which is hard to fix are pages which have
> > very many manual backlinks.
> 
> Even that (usually) is not hard at all if you know your Unix shell
> scripting: find / grep / sed / ...

That's true... I think I even wrote a small personal "replace_in_files" script 
for that at some time (so I wouldn't have to remember and type the 
intermediate commands). So I take it back: As long as the change just means, 
we'll have to replace a certain string in many files, even many links are easy 
to fix. 

> > Seeing how advertently you propagate Mercurial in every applicable
> > task
> 
> Yes, a tiny plea: please don't do that all the time on bug-hurd, rather
> take these off-topic emails off-list.  

I'll try to keep them mostly offlist. 

> A bit of off-topicness is always
> needed and tolerable, but you have to know when to stop.  Else, we might
> think about setting up a hurd-chatter mailing list?

I fear that that list would just be quite dead soon - and once we'd need it 
again, we'd have forgotten about it... just taking the part of the discussion 
offlist is much easier. 

And adding another list will make the Hurd lists less accessible. 

> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:37:21AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > I now pushed the news to bbdebbian:
> 
> <http://www.bddebian.com:8888/~hurd-web/news/2009-08-30/>
> 
> Instead of now finally publishing the news of nearly exactly one month
> ago, what about folding them into this month news?

I just did that. It felt a bit strange to skip a month, but I assume it's the 
best way to treat it here. 
 
> By the way: you added the template for the next news item to the master
> branch instead of the master-news_next branch, 

argl... I just replaced it with the moved news - directly in master. 

> Another suggestion: what about moving from the 2009-MONTH-LAST_DAY to a
> 2009-NEW_MONTH-1 scheme?  This way we can't mess up anymore with the
> detail of how many days every months has.  (I don't care strongly about
> that one, though.)

My reason for using the last day was mainly that it can strengthen the pretext 
that the month is always a look _back_ which shows what we did. 

I'm not really sure about that, though. 

By the way: Do we already have documentation about nsmux on the website? 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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