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

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Dec 17 15:30:33 CET 2014


On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 03:13:47PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mi, 2014-12-17 at 08:24 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> So wiki-style editing isn't a strong requirement.

Right.

> Going with something else which is easier to work with while maintaining
> the ability to generate html pages from it looks like a good way forward
> to me.  Also generating static pages would remove the need to maintain
> the wiki software.

The coreboot admins are doing the maintenance right now though.  :-)

> I don't have good suggestions for a format / software though.

Markdown seems popular, and there are translators to other formats.
I'm not that familiar with it though.

-Kevin



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