Fwd: Release Wiki ToDo

[Carnë Draug]

On 2 October 2013 21:37, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 10:25 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> On 10/01/2013 01:07 PM, Rik wrote:
>>> 10/1/13
>>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> Last time we created a ToDo list on the Octave Wiki for all that had to
>>> happen before the release.  Seems like it would be useful to do that again.
>>>
>>> We have a few definite bugs to fix, an XML Appdata file to create, and ???
>>> before creating the first release candidates.
>>
>> Yes, I think we should create a list of items for the release.  Would you
>> prefer to do this on the wiki or on the task tracker?  Maybe the wiki is
>> easier to edit, but the task tracker limits editing to the people who are
>> members of the Octave project on Savannah.
>>
>> jwe
>>
> I prefer the Wiki.  The task tracker is really just a glorified threaded
> discussion board; this means that instead of crossing items off a ToDo
> list, or deleting them entirely, you have to keep re-posting the reduced
> list as a new comment.

I was asking Joanna (who helped us setting the wiki some 2 years ago)
about having permissions for a group of pages on the wiki.

Apparently it is possible to create a namespace on the wiki that is
readable by everyone but only editable by a group of users. So we
could create a namespace and group (maybe named dev) so that a page
such as "dev:todo_octave3_8_0" is only editable by Octave developers.
This could become handy again in the future.

Do you think this worth setting up? When asked about how much work
this would take:

<carandraug> [...] how much work would you say this takes?
[...]
<joannac> Erm, it depends. The background housekeeping and stuff might
take a while.
<joannac> Ditto setting up the permissions for the usergroup properly
<joannac> It really depends on what kind of permissions setup you
want, how restrictive it is

Carnë