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[[!meta title="Thomas Schwinge"]]

Thomas Schwinge

tschwinge@gnu.org
http://www.thomas.schwinge.homeip.net/

I have converted the GNU Hurd's previous web pages and previous wiki pages to a [[ikiwiki]] system; and all that while preserving the previous content's history, which was stored in a CVS repository for the HTML web pages and a TWiki RCS repository for the wiki; see http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/colophon.html.

Issues to Work On

Stability of Separate Builds

The goal is that separate builds of the same source files should yield the exactly same HTML code (of course, except for changes due to differences in Markdown rendering, for example).

Tags -- [[bugs/tagged__40____41___matching_wikilinks]]

Tags should be a separate concept from wikilinks.

[[!map]] behavior

The [[!map]] on, for example, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/tag/open_issue_hurd.html, should not show the complete hierarchy of pages, but instead just the pages that actually do contain the [[!tag open_issue_hurd]].

Anchors -- [[ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion]]

Default Content for Meta Values -- [[plugins/contrib/default_content_for___42__copyright__42___and___42__license__42__]]

This will decrease to be relevant, as we're going to add copyright and licensing headers to every single file.

Texinfo -- [[plugins/contrib/texinfo]]

Not very important. Have to consider external commands / files / security (see [[plugins/teximg]] source code)?

Shortcuts -- [[plugins/shortcut/discussion]]

[[!meta redir]] -- [[todo/__42__forward__42__ing_functionality_for_the_meta_plugin]]

Implement a checker that makes sure that no pages that use [[!meta redir]] redirect to another page (and are thus considered legacy pages for providing stable URLs, for example) are linked to from other wiki pages. This is useful w.r.t. backlinks. Alternative, the backlinks to the [[!meta redir]]-using pages could perhaps be passed on to the referred-to page?

Sendmail -- [[todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface]]

Parentlinks -- [[bugs/non-existing_pages_in_parentlinks]]

Discussion Pages of Discussion Pages of...

Is it useful to have Discussion pages of Discussion pages (etc.)? -- On http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/building/cross-compiling/discussion.html, this possibility is offered.

Modifying [[plugins/inline]] for showing only an appetizer

Currently ikiwiki's inline plugin will either show the full page or nothing of it. Often that's too much. One can manually use the [[plugins/toggle]] plugin -- see the News section on http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/. Adding a new mode to the inline plugin to only show an appetizer ending with ... (read on) after a customizable amount of characters (or lines) would be a another possibility. The ... (read on) would then either toggle the full content being displayed or link to the complete page.

Prefix For the HTML Title

The title of each page (as in <html><head><title>...) should be prefixed with GNU Project - GNU Hurd -. We can either do this directly in page.tmpl, or create a way to modify the TITLE template variable suitably.

[[plugins/inline]] feedfile option

Not that important. Git commit b67632cdcdd333cf0a88d03c0f7e6e62921f32c3. This would be nice to have even when using usedirs. Might involve issues as discussed in N-to-M Mapping of Input and Output Files on [[plugins/contrib/texinfo]].

Unverified -- these may be bugs, but have yet to be verified

  • ikiwiki doesn't change its internal database when [[!meta date]] / [[!meta updated]] are added / removed, and thusly these meta values are not promulgated in RSS / Atom feeds.

  • Complicated issue w.r.t. no text was copied in this page ([[plugins/cutpaste]]) in RSS feed (only; not Atom?) under some conditions (refresh only, but not rebuild?). Perhaps missing to read in / parse some files?

  • [[plugins/recentchanges]]

    • Creates non-existing links to changes.

    • Invalid directory link with --usedirs.

    • Doesn't honor $timeformat.

    • Does create recentchangees.* files even if that is overridden.