New Mercurial Website

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 02.11.2009 15:01, Steve Losh wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 02.11.2009 14:25, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 13:31, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> There is no need to start an entirely different platform
>>>> that is doomed to be byte rotten from the start because no
>>>> one will update it.
>>> Not having everyone update it also means coherent language,  
>>> structure,
>>> content and more quality control.
>> Oh. So you say our current wiki has incoherent language and structure?
>>
>> Where exactly?
>>
> Quick example off the top of my head: the Release Notes page. The  
> table of contents has a bunch of headings for 1.3.0 only. Are there  
> not subsections for the other versions? Oh, no, they're there, they're  
> just not marked as headings for some reason.
> 
> I can send a whole slew of examples later once I'm at a computer and  
> not a phone, if you like.
> 
>> You are missing the point of what a wiki is. Or what it could be.
>>
>>> And content may be king, having the abundance of content that's on  
>>> our
>>> wiki makes it hard to find the good parts and keep everything up to
>>> date.
>> Not at all.
> Really? The API hasn't changed since 1.1? Because that's the version  
> listed on the MercurialAPI page.
> 
> Reading the API changes page it looks like the API page *has* been  
> updated (it mentions ui.promptchoice) but still says "as of version  
> 1.1". So actually the page is not out of date but completely *wrong*  
> -- if you try to use it to code against the version of Mercurial it  
> says it describes (1.1) you'll probably run into problems.
> 

And you think that can be improved by starting a second site,
which is not part of the wiki, so that everyone wanting to
update things has to send patches?