Publish future alpha milestone release overviews somewhere else?

[Corey Burger]

On 2/23/06, Matt Galvin <matt.t.galvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As you all know the alpha milestone release overviews have been being
> published on w.u.c. These currently include DapperFlight2,
> DapperFlight3 and DapperFlight4. The nature of the wiki allows anyone
> to modify these pages at any time. The upside of this is people can
> make corrections and such unhindered. The downside is that people have
> been making (at times) large changes such and adding irrelevant (for
> that particular alpha release) content or removing whole sections
> without discussing those changes with anyone. This is natural and
> perfectly acceptable behavior for the wiki, but not really appropriate
> for these overviews.
>
> I am very glad that people have liked these documents and have taken
> an interest and try to make improvements. There are two main issues
> with this though. If large changes get made after the document gets
> publicly announced different people see different content and the
> translations are then also not accurate. Additionally, people have
> also at times ranted or wrote their personal opinions (good and bad)
> on these pages which is even more inappropriate for these particular
> documents.
>
> I am in no way trying to single anyone out. Suggestions, improvements
> and such are always welcome and are *very* much appreciated. I just
> feel that for a document that gets translated to a bunch of different
> languages and that gets viewed by many people (not always active
> community members "in the know") it may be best to publish the
> overviews in some not directly mutable place.
>
> Since we cannot make pages immutable on w.u.c, it may be best to
> publish these documents elsewhere. I would of course like to keep this
> stuff open to the community so the first step is I think it may best
> to start writing these in DocBook and storing them in the Doc Team SVN
> repository which has many obvious benefits. The second thing is where
> to publish them? How do you guys feel about d.u.c. Is that server
> stable enough? Matt East and I tried that once before but it did not
> work so well at the time. I could always publish them on my site which
> is fine by me, but if we can keep this stuff on a community controlled
> machine I think that would be a more proper and ideal solution.
>
> This is getting to long...
>
> Any thoughts,
>
> Matt

Why don't you use ACLs to only let a certain group edit it?

Corey