#15 Allow Subversion for version control?

[Michael G Schwern]

After a conversation on irc://irc.perl.org/#p5p (the perl5-porters irc channel) a number of Perl authors would like a way to make PodWiki commit directly to their existing repository. This would allow them to publish their module's POD via PodWiki and have simple fixes, like spelling mistakes, easily fixed by users.

I figure the simplest way to do that would for one to check out the existing POD into data/. PodWiki would have to be altered to speak to SVN, but looking at PodWiki::Revision that doesn't look hard. Its nicely abstracted.

Is this something you'd be interested in?

Here's that conversation on #p5p. demq is Yves Orton. Alias is Adam Kennedy. dispy is a bot. Knowing Adam, I'd stock up on birth control.

<demq> well the thing is that imo the wiki would be a nice place to improve the docs.
<Schwern> demq: A dedicated podwiki would be better.
<demq> for instance the regex docs could be collaboratively edited on a wiki.
<demq> well if you have *better* plans in mind then im all in.
<Schwern> demq: There's the formatting issue.
<demq> yes agreed and understood.
<konobi> a podlink wafl plugin for socialtext wouldn't be too hard
<Schwern> demq: Do you know about PodWiki?
<demq> imo one of PM's strongest features is the extensible PM'llinks stuff.
<demq> no, alas.
<Schwern> demq: http://schwern.org/podwiki/
<demq> schwern that looks pretty cool.
<demq> is it easy to bulk upload all the core pods?
<Alias> ZOMG Schwern!
<Alias> You implemented fixmypodspelling.org! :)
<Schwern> demq: I think you can just copy in the files on the local filesystem.
<Schwern> Alias: Yeah, wouldn't that be nice?
<Alias> Schwern: Does that wiki work with version control properly?
<Alias> Can I just point it at my repository? :)
<Schwern> Alias: Define "properly"
<Alias> Let me rephrase
<Alias> How do I add all my modules to that right now :)
<Schwern> It does RCS, but hey, its Perl
<Schwern> http://www.daemon.de/PodWikiRCS
<dipsy> [ www.daemon.de - PodWikiRCS ]
<Schwern> I've pondered how I can link up podwiki so edits get committed straight to a branch.
<Alias> ya
<Alias> I would have someone's babies for that