[SeaBIOS] [RFC] Add SeaBIOS wiki documents to git repo

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 03:13:32PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> writes:
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 01:01:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >> > I'm not sure if doing this is a good idea.  It would be nice to have
> >> > the documents in version control, and it would be good to allow
> >> > patches to simultaneously update the code and documentation.  However,
> >> > modifying wiki syntax from an editor isn't that easy.
> >> 
> >> I don't see editing wiki syntax in $editor as a problem.
> >
> > The really long lines are annoying to work with.  git-send-email even
> > complains about lines over 998 characters long.
> 
> A sufficiently powerful editor (Emacs: visual-line-mode) should make it
> somewhat less annoying.  Alternatively, edit *only* in an editor, and
> avoid long lines.

It's the mediawiki syntax that drives the long lines - certain
features, like lists, can't have newlines in them or they end the
list.  Normal paragraphs can actually have newlines in them, but if
you put a newline in the middle of some syntax (like a link) then it
wont interpet that syntax.  This makes a normal editor's auto line
wrap feature unusable.

Finally, there is the difficulty in "previewing" changes to see what
it will ultimately look like.

It's all possible to handle, but annoying.

> >> But what is the plan for the wiki then?  Discontinue?  Switch to
> >> read-only and update from git?  Two-way sync between wiki+git?
> >
> > Update the wiki from git.  Right now, only I have write access to the
> > wiki anyway (as no one has requested a wiki account).  A solution
> > other than a wiki is also possible, but that wasn't something I was
> > thinking of, at least in the short term.
> 
> Should two-way become desirable, a Wiki backed by git and included as a
> submodule could be practical.

-Kevin