Re: Software overhaul? - Frontend experience

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com> wrote:

> On Friday, June 7, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Jonathan Garbee wrote:
> > What do you all think that the contributor experience should be like? If
> you can point to example pages online that show the workflow you're
> thinking of. Remember that this conversation is not about backends at all,
> just about how we think contributors should interact from the front-end.
> We could just be using a wiki with a git-based back-end and rely on Git
> and/or GitHub (and its web client) for editing. Gollum[1] is designed to
> work like that.
>

About a year ago I investigated Gollum for this project and came away
deciding that it was not a good fit for our uses. If people are interested
I can try to dig up my notes.

>
> Note we decided to build the documentation for W3C's testing effort using
> GitHub + Jekyll + GitHub Pages. See contributor's guide[2] for more info.
>
> --tobie
>
> [1]: https://github.com/gollum/gollum
> [2]: https://github.com/w3c/testtwf-website/blob/gh-pages/CONTRIBUTING.md
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Received on Monday, 10 June 2013 14:42:17 UTC