Brad Roberts wrote:
This has come up before and never really gone anywhere. I've considered setting
up a new, modern, wiki for us to migrate to. Prowiki has a number of
limitations that annoy me at least. The biggest is it's history management
sucks. Looking at what changed over time is either too hard for the likes of me
to figure out, or it's broken, or it just isn't available.
That said, I've only ever run one wiki package, mediawiki, and it was a pain in
the rear. The debian packaging of it sucks. I dunno if it's any easier to
manage just off the official releases.
Anyone have a wiki package they've actually run (not just used via the web
interface) that they can recommend? An obvious one is likely to be Trac via
dsource. I've considered it, but personally I'm really not fond of trac
(sorry).
Would any of you guys volunteer to help migrate content to it if one should
spring up? I'd be willing to be one of those volunteers, but there's a lot of
content and it really shouldn't be moved over exactly as is. A lot of
re-organization should be done.
My thoughts were to put it at d.puremagic.com to subsume the entire site, with
the exception of /issues which would continue to be the bugzilla installation.
Thoughts?
Later,
Brad
At my company, we have been using Redmine for a year now. Redmine is
comparable to Trac, but with a lot less effort to maintain, since almost
everything is configurable through the web interface *out of the box*.
It’s basically a project management application, but the wiki is a
crutial part of it, using textile as markup language.
And before anyone comes up with another bikeshed-argument: textile is in
use by all employees of this company, *especially* non-IT people. We
also use it in our home-grown blog software, and not even users
submitting blog posts ever had a problem with using it. Most people even
really like it because it’s so simple and intuitive! :)
I would help setting up a Redmine installation and content migration,
too, of course. It’s using Ruby on Rails, btw., and can be either
deployed with a mongrel cluster or via mod_passenger (though I don’t
have any experience with the latter).
ad Helmut:
I think Brad knows quite well how to keep a server running and maintain
a community website. :)
