[Flightgear-devel] "Officialness" of our core FlightGear infrastructure within the FlightGear wiki.

[Edward d'A. <tru...@gm...>]

Hi all,

While making some small updates to the FlightGear hangar page of the
wiki ( http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_hangars ), I stumbled
across an interesting 'backdoor' addition:

    http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=FlightGear_hangars&diff=82285&oldid=79652
    http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=FlightGear_hangars&diff=82286&oldid=82285

This inserts the following text right in the middle of the "Official
hangars" section:

    FGMEMBERS :: Git Hangar (for Git Distribution and development of
FG aircrafts | Aircraft repositories individually)

Searching through the wiki, there appears to be a trend by FGMEMBERS
proponents in inserting such small additions (note - some are no
longer proponents).  This could possibly be part of the strongly
stated and undisputed goal of destroying the official FGData/FGAddon
core infrastructure to replace it with FGData+submodules/FGMEMBERS
(see https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=26043&start=210#p256448
and the links therein - if you are still around ThorstenB, sorry for
misspelling your name, the thread is now locked).  Some other minor
wiki changes include:

    - http://wiki.flightgear.org/New_to_FlightGear - See the text
"Also, note that those using the Git version of FlightGear may choose
to update their aircraft files through the Git system via FGAddon or
FGMembers.".  This change has propagated to some of the translations.

    - http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Newsletter_March_2015 -
Note in the section about the FGData split, that FGAddon is mentioned
as the very last note, conspicuously below the more prominent
FGMEMBERS.

    - http://wiki.flightgear.org/Grumman_C-2_Greyhound - Compare the
current "It debuted with FlightGear 1.9.0 in December 2008 and is
currently available from helljah's site as well as FGMEMBERS." with
the old "It debuted with FlightGear 1.9.0 in December 2008.".  Note
the changed meaning giving the impression that Emmanuel's aircraft is
no longer in FGAddon (though that might have been by accident).  See
http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/HEAD/tree/trunk/Aircraft/C-2A/
, this aircraft has been in FGData/FGAddon since the old FGData
repository days at Gitorious.

These efforts appear to be to either place FGData/FGAddon and
FGData+submodules/FGMEMBERS on the same footing, or to place FGMEMBERS
above the official infrastructure.  This deliberately creates
confusion for FlightGear users as to what is "official"
infrastructure.  The name FGData+submodules for the private fork of
FGData also adds to the confusion (
http://sourceforge.net/p/fgdata/submodules/ci/next/tree/ ).  This
confusion appears to be significant and often surfaces on the
FlightGear forum.

I don't feel comfortable performing direct reversions of these minor
changes myself, at least without first discussing it.  And some
articles are locked and cannot be changed.  I was wondering what would
be the best steps to be taken to remove this deliberate confusion and
to clean up and restore the "officialness" of our core FlightGear
infrastructure on the official FlightGear wiki?

Cheers,

Edward