Source quality

[Nexus]

Hi,

I am currently porting articles from the old to the new wiki. And especially at source codes, I see a problem: Some codes are badly documented, contain severe mistakes or suffer from being unmaintained.

Of course, the idea behind the wiki is that everyone can improve it, but applied to C++ code, this can be complicated. You never know whether the author likes it if his code is changed because the original intention may be distorted, the licenses are not always clear, and different users have different views concerning good code.

Since we have currently the opportunity to form the new wiki, I suggest to wait with porting articles of this kind, and inform the authors to allow them improving their articles. The navigation for wiki users (especially beginners) becomes easier if they don't have to face a huge mess of codes that are once written and never looked at again. Besides, the really good articles don't get lost like this.

What do you think? And how should this be handled in the future?

[xazax]

I think if the authors don't want their code to be modified, they wouldn't post it on a wiki.

In my opinion:
* Do the modifications to the code and also give the credits to the author for the original code.
* Add the original code to another wiki page
* Add a reference to the modified code like: the original verison is here: link

[Laurent]

The wiki is meant to be improved by everyone, so unless a license is clearly specified and disallow modifications (in this case please report it to me, because this is clearly incompatible with the wiki) go ahead and edit whatever you want.

I think if the authors don't want their code to be modified, they wouldn't post it on a wiki.

100% true (if the new code is not worse, of course).

[Nexus]

Okay.

By the way, if anyone of the SFML users has 10 minutes free time: Don't hesitate to port old articles, too