On 4/18/06, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [If you follow up, you might want to do so sending mail to only > <URL:mailto:web-hurd@gnu.org>; people interested the topic started below > may want to join <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/web-hurd>; > I'll later--once we have an agreement--post a summary to all lists > again.] > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:29:30PM +0200, Tom Bachmann wrote: > > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > [Writing documentation for this and that and everything.] > > > More importantly, neither of us [Marcus and Neal] currently has the > > > time to pursue this full time or even part time. Nothing can be done > > > about it. > > Understandable. > > > It might be useful to give into public the bits that are already done > > (as you did) > > Agreed. > > > > and adding it to the wiki content. > > Let me elaborate a bit; this is the reason for posting this mail to a > number of mailing lists. > > Since the old Hurd wiki is basically no longer satisfying both content > wise and software wise and both parts are rather unfrugal to get sorted > out easily, I'm about to present an idea of a new wiki system Neal > pointed me to: <URL:http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/>, which is in fact a > system I've loosely been thinking about and looking for (i.e. not > systematically) for months (well..., years). > > > Appetizer: > > The wiki's content (formatted in a simple, hardly noticeable, most > intuitive meta language) is stored in a repository of a common revision > control system. Subversion is implemented, others seem to be rather > trivial to add, I have darcs in mind. > > Basically, all that the wiki system does is take the content from the > revision control system and compile it into HTML pages. > > That means, you can check-out the repository at home, work on it > (off-line) using your favourite version of Emacs (or ed ;-) and later > commit it or send a patch. This sounds really appealing to me. > > Alternatively you can work on the wiki's content like you do with every > other wiki system: clumsily in your browser. > > > I need some more time to evaluate it, but would already appreciate input > of every manner.
I do like this idea, specially if darcs is supported :) It would be easier to work with this way, at least for me. > > > If / why we need a wiki and topics like that are to be discussed on the > web-hurd mailing list, please. > > > Regards, > Thomas > > > P.S. The wiki engine is written in Perl. But wait. Joey states to care > about the system's security, so I suppose he is not writing it akin to > the way most of the other commonly known Perl hackery is written in. ;-) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >