Documentation platform

the one concurrent proposal I see is to put it all on the drupal site .

But a wiki is a wiki. And there are so many people who can work with mediawiki

Interestingly, it's actually quite possible to add it to Drupal itself. There's a great couple of modules that you can string together to add wiki functionality. This video here gives a simple demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHsjjHzYOSg

What I like about a "CMS for a Project Site" approach is that a lot of infrastructure can be baked in, and we could have a solid user account system for actively contributing directly to the project itself, from its own website.

I will try today the drupal wiki. Last time I did was about a year ago. Freelinking had some issues. Maybe it improved.
To have it on one platform would be good.

Cool, let me know how it goes! :)

installed a test drupal site on http://diasporatest.openspirit.de
@Sean , yep will do.

"Your application for an account is currently pending approval" do Drupal have alternatives or is this the only way to manage registration of new users?

I also tested to create a wiki page, it is also waiting for approval. Just for evaluation, can we turn "off" approval?

I find it hard to setup this wiki. But havent watched the video yet, will do now.

I know you are testing it, be cool.

On test platform I set registration mode free.

@all who are interested in drupal tests or discussion apply for new subgroup!
So we can continue discussion there!?

No, we should keep discussion on here for the most part. I don't want to have to check three or four different sites just to have a conversation. ;)

Sean, I think he meant a sub-group here in Loomio.

Oh. :P

One suggestion I have: we could use the Wiki for macro-level documentation (what certain folders are used for, and so on) and use Doxygen for code-level documentation for easy look-up.
I am confused as to where documentation is being used. Stack Exchange or Wiki?

Currently, all documentation is located on our GitHub repo's wiki. However, as we're thinking about some changes in infrastructure, we're considering better options.

So far, two of the more practical options (if we go the self-hosted route) are as follows:

1.) Use MediaWiki. MW is tried-and-true, and is pretty easy to organize.

2.) Build into Drupal using a wikitools and FreeLinking module set. The upside of this is that we can integrate wiki functionality directly into the Drupal platform, which could serve several other functions as a central project site, and provide a useful set of reasons to register a single account.

I think a self-hosted wiki would be the best way forward. I can't really comment on the technical benefits of different systems as I don't know anything about them, so will leave that up to those who do. It sounds promising.