revDocWiki

[Timothy Miller]

Someone asked earlier today, in re the hypothetical wiki that might 
be used to improve and expand the rev documentation: "What is Rev 
willing to kick in?" or something along those lines.

An obvious first step would be for Rev to convert its current onboard 
docs into a format suitable for a wiki, and allow the wikiMaster use 
of those docs, without charge. Rev could retain the copyright, if it 
wanted to -- if they are copyrighted.

Rev might want to abstain from any more obligations to the wiki, 
until the Rev people see how it's working out. Heck, the wikiMaster 
or wikiGroup might be able to charge Rev for the improved version of 
its own docs. However, it seems more civilized for Rev and the 
wikiMasters to reach some kind of agreement beforehand. That's more 
civilized than hostageware.

Of course, this is all hypothetical, at best, really more like highly 
speculative.

What would *I* be willing to do? Well, at least I can write. If a 
property, chunk, object, command, etc., might benefit from a verbose 
alternative to the usual terse dictionary entry, I would be willing 
to write verbose explanations of some items I understand well, and 
submit them to the wiki.

Cheers,


Tim