User:Zakgreant/pairdoc/2010-11-09
Participants: Chad Horohoe and Zak Greant
A brief (~15 minutes) discussion on documentation and the new installer/upgrader in 1.17.
Notes
[edit]- Chad's recent focus has been the new installer/upgrader that will be shipped in 1.17.
- He also works on Extension:CodeReview.
- The old installer was a single form, which was difficult for less-experienced sysadmins to use
- The new installer:
- has a multi-stage/wizard approach that allows sysadmints to incrementally work through the process.
- works with many major web servers, including Apache, IIS, lighttpd and nginx
- works with many DMBS, including PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite. Oracle support is being tested.
- is still targeted for sysadmins.
- is mostly self-documented.
- is localizable.
- is still having the UI reworked. (No screenshots yet.)
- The current install and upgrade documentation is both too specific and too brittle.
- Well-meaning users have added documentation that doesn't belong in the docs, such as step-by-step guides to installing platform software and dependencies. Materials like this should be in the User: space.
Actions
[edit]- Zak: Run the new installer (using HEAD) on a few different platforms
- Zak: Review the embedded docs and suggest any needed improvements.
- Zak: Ask for Chad's feedback on things related to our use of Extension:CodeReview.