[soton] [activity-2014-11-19] Trac wiki cleaup

[Andrew Barrett-Sprot]

Hi all,

Against my better judgement, Alistair has put me in charge of a task in a doing.

We'll be cleaning up the trac wiki, because it has gotten relatively messy over the years. As an example, the titles for pages vary wildly in naming conventions.

As this is a fairly nebulous task, we can probably keep picking at it for an entire doing.

-Andy (abs on IRC)

[Peter Law]

Hi,

Andrew Barrett-Sprot wrote:
> As an example, the titles for pages vary wildly in naming conventions.

Presumably the fix for this will involve the investigation of a
redirection plugin for trac (it doesn't have this built in) so that
the old urls still work?

Thanks,
Peter

[Jeremy Morse]

Hi,

On 17/11/14 23:45, Andrew Barrett-Sprot wrote:
> We'll be cleaning up the trac wiki, because it has gotten relatively messy
> over the years. As an example, the titles for pages vary wildly in naming
> conventions.

Is this the title / heading scheme for pages, or the actual URL that
they're located at on trac? Changing the latter will reset the history
of the page, making it almost impossible to inspect the past, which
would be massively undesirable versus the asthetic inconvenience of a
url not matching some scheme [0].

Please avoid damaging history at all costs [1].

[0] Conventions for which don't actually exist.
[1] This is heavy!

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Thanks,
Jeremy

[Alistair Lynn]

Hi Jeremy–

> Is this the title / heading scheme for pages, or the actual URL that
> they're located at on trac? Changing the latter will reset the history
> of the page, making it almost impossible to inspect the past, which
> would be massively undesirable versus the asthetic inconvenience of a
> url not matching some scheme [0].

WikiRename is, I believe, in the version of Trac we have installed (it
appeared in 0.12[1] and we have 1.0.1), which is a full page rename
including history.

With the history in moves, we can just leave pages behind with a single link.

Alistair

[1] http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiRename

[Jeremy Morse]

Hi,

On 18/11/14 00:03, Alistair Lynn wrote:
> WikiRename is, I believe, in the version of Trac we have installed (it
> appeared in 0.12[1] and we have 1.0.1), which is a full page rename
> including history.
>
> With the history in moves, we can just leave pages behind with a single link.

Excellent, I'm glad to see we're protecting history [Can't think up any
pop culture reference prior to coffee, sorry].

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Thanks,
Jeremy