[TOS] [[Practical OSS Exploration textbook]]

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Sun Aug 22 01:17:22 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 09:25 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:08:58PM -0700, tosmaillist.neophyte_rep at ordinaryamerican.net wrote:
> > Quaid (also known as Karsten),
> > 
> > I noticed your "Summary" comments, "pulling in the 0.8 page for now
> > via transclusion; need to think about what should be on this page or
> > is it a redirect or what?"
> 
> Thanks for doing more thinking about it. :)
> 
> > May I suggest that there needs to be a [[Practical OSS Exploration
> > Stable]] that is a redirect to the last release, which, at the present
> > time, is [[Textbook Release 0.8]].
> > There also needs to be another redirect page [[Practical OSS
> > Exploration Development]], where "Development" is the alias for the
> > version being improved, which, at the present time, would be
> > [[Practical OSS Exploration 0.8.1]]. We have a page [[Textbook
> > Roadmap]] that seems to have the appropriate links to the chapters
> > that are available for modification to become [[Practical OSS
> > Exploration 0.8.1]].  The table of links in [[Textbook Roadmap]] could
> > be removed and a link to [[Practical OSS Exploration Development]]
> > substituted.  Then we'd be set to make changes.
> 
> That makes sense to me.  One change I recommend is that we rename
> [[Textbook Release 0.8]] to the name you suggested, [[P OSS E
> stable]].  Renaming automatically creates a redirect.  (I'm also
> making non-proper names/titles lower case, as is the MediaWiki
> practice.)
> 
> I'm going to draw that here with some arrows, then one of us can make
> it happen on the wiki.  For visual ease, I'll abbreviate "Practical
> OSS Exploration" to "P OSS E" (which is visually confusing with our
> "POSSE" acronym but not impossible to see around.)
> 
> Also, how about cleaning up the naming all around?
> 
> [[Textbook Release 0.8]] --_rename_--> [[P OSS E stable]]
> [[P OSS E development]]  --_redir_-->  [[P OSS E 0.8.1]]
> [[Textbook Roadmap]] 	 --_rename_--> [[P OSS E textbook roadmap]]
> 
> [[P OSS E textbook roadmap]] set of links either replaced with link to
> [[P OSS E development]] or have the latter transcluded directly in to
> the roadmap page.
> 
> - Karsten

Remember also that the short URLs
http://teachingopensource.org/{text,textbook} redirect to [[Textbook
Redirect]], which is a trampoline that can be pointed wherever you want
-- looks to me like you'll want it to point to [[P OSS E stable]].

-Chris




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