[Sugar-devel] Introduction and review request of GSoC Proposal:
Rudra Sadhu
rdrsadhu at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 02:01:49 EDT 2018
thanks James for the assessment.
I've successfully migrated a few of the pages from
https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities to GitHub
Find the pull request at https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pull/38
and now, the wiki-pages needs to be deprecated.
As to delete a page from the wiki, an user needs 'administrators' rights,
thus,
Some possible ways to delete the pages are:
1. create a bot account with restricted permissions which can delete
pages(my preferred choice)
2. for a temporary period grant delete rights to me
3. someone trusted deletes the pages
4. something else and better (please suggest)
It may not be convenient to delete the pages manually as there will be
thousands of those(including extra images/files attached to the pages) for
the 345 pages to be migrated
All of the deletion is preferred to be done by a script (which uses
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Delete), under close supervision
Do not worry, no damage(if at all) will be permanent; since it is possible
to always recover pages deleted by an user with 'administrators' rights.
Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deletion_and_undeletion
Please recommend the desired course of action
thanks,
Rudra Sadhu
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:41 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> Thanks, I've reviewed your updated proposal.
>
> My assessment of project impact;
>
> Originally documentation was separate because we had non-coding
> developers and tool chains that varied by type of developer. Now we
> use GitHub the tool chains are combined.
>
> With the project as described, documentation will be concentrated in
> the source code repository for an activity, reducing ongoing
> maintenance.
>
> We have less active Wiki contributors than we ever did, and in the
> current threat environment a Wiki requires significant monitoring and
> administration; we recently lost some system administrators and gained
> new ones; using GitHub allows us to outsource system administration.
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 08:06:49PM +0530, Rudra Sadhu wrote:
> > Thanks James, Carlos, Gonzalo and everyone for the insights
> >
> > Your inputs helped a lot, and I've updated my proposal accordingly.
> > A lot of important stuff was added such as the working the Help Activity,
> > keeping check on the activity bundle sizes and completing the
> miscellaneous
> > section.
> >
> > The proposal is available at [1]https://wiki.sugarlabs.
> org/go/Summer_of_Code/
> > 2018/attentive_migration_of_wiki_activity_pages_to_git
> > I've also shared the same via the GSoC dashboard
> > Please read, most importantly the 'About Project' section
> >
> > Let me know of the stuff I should add/remove/update to better justify the
> > task.
> >
> > also It would help, if someone volunteers to answer the impact of this
> project
> > required to be filled in as an answer in the 'Project and the Community'
> > section
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rudra Sadhu
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Rudra Sadhu <[2]rdrsadhu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks James,
> > the resources you mentioned were really helpful.
> >
> > I went ahead to migrate a few of the pages by the guidelines you
> described.
> > Find the Pull Request here: [3]https://github.com/
> sugarlabs/activity-abacus
> > /pull/13
> >
> > Please review
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, James Cameron <[4]quozl at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On IRC #sugar Vipul Gupta asked;
> >
> > <vipulgupta2048> Hey, in the Activity task of migration. We need
> to
> > migrate content from activities page to their Githubs or their
> git
> > pages.
> >
> > <vipulgupta2048> ?
> >
> > <vipulgupta2048> Please clarify which one is it. Some pages
> don't have
> > the links of their repository
> >
> > <vipulgupta2048> The organisations is not uniform. I have
> included
> > this in my proposal too.
> >
> > <Quozl_> vipulgupta2048: need to write a program that will
> migrate
> > content from [5]wiki.sugarlabs.org activities page to
> respective GitHub
> > repository README.md files, yet without duplicating what is
> there, and
> > without duplicating user documentation in the help-activity, see
> > recent posts to sugar-devel@ discussing the issue.
> >
> > <Quozl_> vipulgupta2048: did you get the above? if not, i'll
> have to
> > write a mail.
> >
> > My recent post is quoted below and can be found in the mailing
> list
> > archives.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 06:04:02PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > > G'day Rudra,
> > >
> > > Thanks for being at the meeting earlier, and for your proposal.
> > >
> > > A project for GSoC 2013 added context sensitive help, or user
> > > documentation, to the Sugar desktop, with alt+shift+h key.
> > >
> > > It works with the Help activity. Metadata in the Help
> activity links
> > a
> > > subject activity to a markdown source file, which is converted
> to
> > HTML
> > > and rendered in a tiny browser.
> > >
> > > Many of these source files came from the Wiki pages of
> activities,
> > and
> > > have been updated since then.
> > >
> > > Please review and integrate the Help activity into your
> proposal; for
> > > instance;
> > >
> > > - avoid duplicating user documentation into activity
> repositories,
> > > because that would make for unncessary maintenance burden,
> or;
> > >
> > > - move some of the Help activity files into activity
> repositories and
> > > provide a way to update the Help activity from the subject
> > > activities.
> > >
> > > Please review the discussion on these two pull requests;
> > >
> > > [6]https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/pull/12
> > > [7]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/137
> > >
> > > And then ask any questions to clarify, thanks.
> > >
> > > --
> > > James Cameron
> > > [8]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >
> > --
> > James Cameron
> > [9]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2018/attentive_
> migration_of_wiki_activity_pages_to_git
> > [2] mailto:rdrsadhu at gmail.com
> > [3] https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/pull/13
> > [4] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
> > [6] https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/pull/12
> > [7] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/137
> > [8] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> > [9] http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
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