Hi,
Vincent Massol wrote: > > This is about cleaning up. > > I am almost sure now: I've just jumped into the wrong thread :-( Sorry if I am adding nothing but noise. > No system can go on indefinitely by keeping everything online. The > strategy is simple: > - you backup (as we do every day) and remove things that shouldn't be > kept. They're still available on backup should they be needed one day. > I do agree. But I've a huge problem there: how to decide which "things" should not be kept. Yes, they will be on backups, but how to be sure that "the system" will be able to find them when needed? > As for revisions we'll need a way in the future to be able to maintain > that too since they grow quite large. > As devs say when you agree, +1 :-) > I don't agree about absolutely keeping old things online when they're > not needed anymore. If we had done this we would still live with some > mess of xwiki.org as it was back in 2005-2006. > Again, the same problem. How to decide that a "thing" is not needed? I'm afraid I must make an effort to present an example. A case study. I am thinking/working in a research environment. It is really hard to decide what could be deprecated at a given moment. > The main point of a wiki is to *NOT* keep stale things by applying > constant refactorings (which is what I suggest) so I definitely don't > agree about using a wiki as an archival system (there are way better > solutions for that) :) > I agree! I don't think about a wiki (XWiki) as archival system. I think that I think (sic) about XWiki like a key piece in an information system helping to move textual information (prose explanation about data and thoughts) into structured documents, then into knowledge. Perhaps documents can/must not last forever, but years should be considered as a regular duration for a document life cycle. During this time, it is possible that the size of modification won't be an issue: a single document won't growth forever, but the number of relations will do. I've to read a much more about this! > Thanks > -Vincent > > Thank you very much for your thoughts! Ricardo -- Ricardo RodrÃguez Your EPEC Network ICT Team _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
