[Moin-user] moin 1.9 - new deployment and new docs

[Rick Vanderveer]

Oh, I definitely like the direction of the new documentation!  I really like
that specific stuff (like platform-specific help) are nicely organized as
subpages, and I like the conciseness, and the flow.
I'll try to round out the Mac and Windows blank links over the next few
days.
-Rick



On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Waldmann <tw-public at gmx.de> wrote:

> > Wow, I think this is a really exciting direction!  I'm probably a
> > little bit biased, but I happen to think that Moin is superior to most
> > other wiki's I've evaluated.  :-)  However, (as pointed out the other
> > day) the Moin install documentation can be a little thin at times.
> > When I look at other projects, one thing I've always admired is that
> > they have one set of easy step-by-step setup documentation that will
> > get you up and running.
>
> I also have looked at some other projects' docs. They often restrict
> themselves to either a single environment or are just rather briefly
> describing THEIR stuff. They don't try to teach web server
> administration for dummies, like we tried.
>
> That's why their docs are so short and simple. And because they are
> short and simple, people read them.
>
> Ours were not short and not simple and some stuff got outdated after it
> was written and my impression is many people don't really read them.
>
> > My hope is unifying the Moin set up under one WSGI configuration will
> > get us to that same level.  This is great news!
>
> Yes, I hope so, too.
>
> > To this end, I can try to help with the Windows and Mac installer
> > documentation for 1.9.  I run Moin on Windows for work, and I use a
> > Mac at home.  Can you give me some guidance on what you want me to
> > test (i.e. test set up with Apache)?
>
> http://moinmo.in/NewDocs
>
> See the quick installation docs and the links to the non-existing pages
> for windows and mac.
>
>
>
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