Taxonomy of the Development Web

The Development web contains all the topics that are related to the development of Foswiki:

• New Features requests
• Coding Standards
• Development Procedures
• Developers Documentation
• Release Tracking
• Feature Brainstorming
• Anything else the developers feel that should be here.

Development Topic Classification

Name	Type	Tooltip Message
Select one...	option
DevelopmentOfDevelopment	option	To bring development further
BrainStorming	option	Ideas are oozing out of someone's head...
ShortcutTopic	option	Used to classify needed abbreviations.
AdminTopic	option	Relates to administration of this content
SupplementaryDocumentation	option	This content helps end users in some way, but is too obscure to include in the standard documentation set
DeveloperDocumentation	option	Documentation used by developers, not usually of interest to non-developers.
GatewayTopic	option	Topic used to group related topics
CheckinRequest	option	Topic used for a CheckinRequest to Subversion
FoswikiDeveloper	option	a successful CheckinRequest to Subversion
ExtensionsDevelopment	option	Active development of extensions

Note: DefineTerm has been removed from the TopicClassification list.
Reasons: We are not a dictionary, we are not wikipedia, it just clutters our site (remember Codev).

Supporting Topics

Gateway Topics

All categories have an associated gateway topic that can be used to quickly locate all the topics belonging to it. Just click on the category name on the table above.

There is also special gateway for topics that has not been classified, SearchForUnclassifiedTopics.

Special topics

• BasicForm: Form used for the topic classification.
• WebTopicEditTemplate: Topic Template used for new topics.

What should not be in Development

The following topics will be moved to their proper place by the WebsiteFacilitatorTaskTeam

• Community activities (goes to Community web)
• Governance related topics (goes to Community web)
• Task Teams definitions and activities (goes to Community web)
• Meetings descriptions and minutes (goes to Community web)
• Bugs notification (goes to Tasks web)
• Support requests (goes to Support web)
• Sandbox topics (goes to Sandbox web)
• Personal pages (if it is a member of the community, goes to Users web, otherwise goes to Trash after notifying the author)
• Information about the product and the project (goes to Home web)
• Success stories (goes to Home web)
• News (goes to Home web)

Comments

I think it is important to keep all taxonomy discussion in one place instead of spreading them on the WebTaxonomy topics in different webs.

-- MichaelDaum - 11 Nov 2008 - 08:06