Talk:FGAddon

Templates instead of explicit URLs

Moved here from FlightGear wiki:Village pump#Repository link templates (perm).

The FGAddon article could greatly benefit from being reviewed with a focus on getting rid of/generalizing explicit URLs (or even git instructions) in favor of using templates that encapsulate any URL/git specifics, so that things can be more easily updated in the future. --Hooray (talk) 03:01, 20 September 2015 (EDT)

Is there a listing or category page for such templates? I haven't found where these are collected, and cannot find the relevant template. The SF URLs are very diverse in this article, e.g.:

svn+ssh://<username>@svn.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft/
svn+ssh://<username>@svn.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft/DaSH
svn+ssh://<username>@svn.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft/<aircraft>
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft/
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft/DaSH
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/trunk/Aircraft/<aircraft>
https://sourceforge.net/u/<username>/profile/
https://sourceforge.net/u/<username>/code-fkdr1/ci/master/tree/
ssh://<username>@git.code.sf.net/u/<username>/code-<aircraft>
https://sourceforge.net/u/<username>/code-<aircraft>/ci/master/tree
ssh://<username>@git.code.sf.net/u/<username>/code-ornithopter
https://sourceforge.net/u/<username>/code-ornithopter/ci/master/tree/
ssh://<username>@git.code.sf.net/u/<username_leader>/code-ornithopter

Some of these URLs are highly specific to the very detailed and reqired instructions on the page. The parts in angular brackets <> should be presented in these brackets on the page to indicate that the reader replaces it with the relevant value. So these are not followable URLs anyway. And can templates be used in the <syntaxhighlight> tags? Note that none of these are for the SF web interface, for which all the templates I've seen so far are for.

Bugman (talk) 13:58, 27 October 2015 (EDT)