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[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Conner,

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> The BT is now using the wiki as one of its primary methods of staying
> organized, we have an entire structure laid out [1].  The main page
> would be here [2].  BT Focus Groups also use the wiki to stay organized.

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I'm glad that the team wiki is working well as a tool to facilitate team
management and if your users are familiar with it then I'd agree that it
seems logical they would be comfortable to assist on the community
documentation. The improvements are tangible and appreciated.

However, as you say, there aren't enough of you - a problem we have in this
team too. I've suggested that we launch another wiki day before but it has
never hit got much support.

Given the number of people showing interest in the team and the lack of
supervisable work in the sysem documentation at present then we really could
be utilising this as a push on the wiki prior to next release.

This also keeps the interest level of students high until we can gain a
little more organisation (Phil - you do a great job).

In general, I think one problem the wiki has is the lack of version control.
If there was some way to stipulate which version a page was written for (or
not as the case may be, such as team pages) then it would be easier to have
a macro flagging pages to be checked once the pass the LTS release cycle.

For example, the page on clustering - this could sit forever until someone
decides to look it up (which appeared to be the case when it was raised on
the list) - the information was several releases in the past.

But that's for the next release cycle, surely at this point quality control,
auditing and improvement is the way ahead?

Oh and as for the Register issue - I couldn't care less. They clearly
haven't looked at the site or the teams involved because they seem to be
under the impression that we document code.

I just think its suspicious that the author is called Phil Manchester and
was first noted by Phil Bull who is at Manchester University? Coincidence?
LoL.

Cheers,

Dougie