Wiki: special namespace for proposals?

[Simon Marlow]

On 15/10/14 09:37, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> I think that would be a fine idea, but it's always hard
> - pages change their status (a proposal becomes part of GHC)
> - a page may "belong" in multiple places
> - people keep URLs in bookmarks, and they are linked from other pages in Trac
>    so moving pages is painful.
>
> The last is significant.  Do we leave "this page has moved" stub pages (i.e. still cluttering the TitleIndex).  Or do we move them, and live with dead links.   I'm very un-keen on dead links in Trac itself.  Maybe there is some way to rewrite all of those, at least?

You can leave indirections in place in Trac, like this:

[[redirect(wiki:Building/Preparation/Windows)]]

I've done this a few times when I moved pages to better organise things. 
  I agree that it does leave some clutter in TitleIndex, that's 
unfortunate, but I think it's worth it to have good organisation.

Cheers,
Simon


> I don't have a strong opinion here
>
> Simon
>
> |  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> |  Yuras Shumovich
> |  Sent: 14 October 2014 23:13
> |  To: ghc-devs at haskell.org Devs
> |  Subject: Wiki: special namespace for proposals?
> |
> |
> |  Hello,
> |
> |  Would it be better to organize proposals under one namespace? Right
> |  now they belongs to root namespace, so title index (
> |  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TitleIndex ) is hard to use.
> |
> |  I was going to start new page describing language extension, but I
> |  don't want do increase entropy even more. What about creating special
> |  namespace, e.g. "Proposals"? Probably makes sense to divide if
> |  farther?
> |
> |  Thanks,
> |  Yuras
> |
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