Wookey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040401]: > +++ Philippe De Swert [04-03-30 02:07 +0200]: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I was recently browsing the emdebian website and I wondered if a wiki > > wouldn't > > be useful. Especially for things that should be changed quite often or > > where > > user-feedback could be handy. The todo-list is already such a thing, > > eventually a small documentation/ FAQ wiki,... As I do not have any > > experience > > with (nor the resources) setting up one, I wondered if somebody did.I'm > > willing to help where possible. If of course this seems to be a good idea. > > Other questions do also pop up, like should it be editable by anyone or > > just > > developers? ... > > Frank oringially installed Twiki on the website for the reasons given, but > Sourceforge managed to lose it and revert us to a very old config, so I > binned it in the recent tidy-up. Wiki's are handy but are prone to turning > into a confusing pile of ill-maintained stuff if no-one looks after the > content. Still, as you say it could be rather useful for getting simple > contributions from people. > > Currently anyone who is a developer can modify the website by checking out > the 'website' module from CVS and then checking their changes back in. Then > it needs running though WML to make the changes visible. WML is not on > sourceforge so I do that locally and run a script to scp the site to > sourceforge. Having a local script and WML copy to prod would make life > easier. > > This isn't as convenient as a Wiki, but it produces a rather more pleasing > website. Updates are encouraged. > > I'm not sure if you need to have admin priviledges to install Twiki on our > bit of the website, but if anyone is enthused I'm happy to give them the > necessary priviledges.
I will try to install moin on an account sourceforge, I will keep you informed if it's successful. Wiki is a very good way to let anyone contribute, not only developpers. -- Benjamin Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://bh.udev.org
