[Koha] RFCs - could we make better use of MediaWiki?

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Once an RFC has been turned into a feature (as in the development has been
done), does the RFC get taken off the wiki?

Lori

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:41 AM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> Magnus Enger <magnus at enger.priv.no> wrote:
> > I don't think the layout of the RFCs is clear enough as it is, all of
> > these pages seem (at first glance) to be doing some of the same
> > things:
> > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:RFCs
> > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:RFCs:for_3.2
> > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:3.2
>
> I agree with this and posted something similar myself about
> Category:Serials and Category:RFCs compared to the proposed
> Category:Serials_RFCs.
>
> > And how do you find out which RFCs have sponsors, which are under
> > active development etc?
>
> Search bugzilla enh tickets.  But, as noted, bugzilla needs some
> tidying.
>
> > *** Editing and "cataloguing" RFCs
> >
> > For another project I have used the "Semantic Mediawiki"
> > (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/) family of extensions to MediaWiki,
> > and I think it/they might help with making our RFCs easier to interact
> > with.
>
> I'm reluctant to see our wiki become even more stuck in mediawikisms.
> I remain hopeful that dissatisfaction with mediawiki and a return to
> something which uses an easier wiki markup will happen one day.
>
> So, is this possible another way?
>
> [...]
> > * Provide a "standard" comment form as an alternative to the "Talk"
> > page (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleComments)
>
> That reminds me: if I'm watching an RFC page, will I be told about
> activity on the related Talk page?  If not, wouldn't it be better
> if people just edited the RFC and we switched off Talk pages?
>
> Hope that helps,
> --
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