On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus < apfelmus@quantentunnel.de> wrote:
Don Stewart wrote:
For example, if all the haddocks on hackage.org were a wiki, and interlinked, every single package author would benefit, as would all users.
You mean, everyone should be able to mess about with my documentation? This would be similar to give everyone commit rights to my repositories or allow everyone to edit the code of my published libraries. What is the good
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: thing
about that?
Well, it's excellent if you haven't written said documentation yet. ;)
But yes, the package author should have the last word about what goes in and what does not. The goal is simply to drastically lower the bar of participation.
Something like AnnoCPAN would be a good middle-ground here; i.e. differentiate between "official" package documentation and user annotations, but make them both visible. Luke