Andrus Adamchik wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote: > >> looks good -- and I updated the cayenne status. > > Great, thanks! > >> Regarding the Confluence migration, I understand from infrastructure@ >> that Confluence isn't supposed to be used as a general purpose wiki. It >> was installed for committers to maintain the static, published, web >> site. > > Actually, the only other project using Confluence, Geronimo, uses it as > a main Wiki (at least the "Wiki" link from the main G. site points to > Confluence). So I hope this is not so. > > I haven't seen any mention that Confluence at Apache wasn't intended to > be a general purpose Wiki, but rather that it doesn't scale very well. > And the static site plugin (not sure what it is called exactly) was > supposed to address this issue.
we should get that clarified sooner rather than later. Are you subscribed to infrastructure@ ? >> Would Cayenne also like a MoinMoin wiki for general purpose use? > > > We had a discussion on that some time back and there was a desire to > preserve Confluence as a Wiki, the main reason being that we are using > it as a documentation engine (relying on its export feature), but also > because it more feature-rich in general, and we have lots of Confluence > content already. MoinMoin serves the need of a general Wiki that anyone can update. But there's no requirement to have such a Wiki and many projects don't. -jean
