It sounds great, but is indeed a lot of maintenance. I'd like the chance to expand the xml section more for KVM users though! Perhaps just a definitive run down of all the possible XML options in a generic context.
The rest of the project's obviously open source - is the website under a source tree? Can I come on board as a contributor in some sense and propose 'patches' for the site? Henri Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:37AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > >> My previous experience hosting a Wiki on xmlsoft.org (a.k.a. libvirt.org) >> has been rather painful, admitedly that was a few years ago ... >> I'm not sure what's the best way, hosting yet another wiki or reusing >> an existing one. >> > > Wikis, as you point out, require active management. > > I'm running several low-traffic OCaml wikis (might as well advertise > them: http://ocaml-tutorial.org/ and http://cocan.org/) with > reasonable success. We require authenticated email addresses for all > editing, a diff of all edits are CC'd daily to subscribers, and we > have people who act as editors for particular pages / sections of the > wiki. > > This has controlled spam reasonably successfully. One Ubuntu > developer who shall remain nameless turned out to have a sideline in > blackhat "SEO" (wiki spamming) and actually signed up with his valid > email address to spam the wiki. This was spotted almost instantly and > he was kicked off. We had another case where someone signed up using > http://mailinator.com and set up a http://bugmenot.com account which > we also found quickly and eliminated. The daily emailed diffs of the > whole wiki, plus the ability to roll back a day, basically make any > long-term wiki spam impossible to carry out (or so we think ...[1]) > > The benefits of all this management can be useful, user-driven > resources, and _if_ carefully structured and edited, this can be > better than Google + mailing lists or asking the same questions over > and over on IRC. > > Just my 2p (about $1). > > Rich. > > [1] And if you think of a way, rather than making lots of work for our > editors by "proving" it, just email me OK? > > -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
