Matt Todd wrote:
> [Lots of stuff....]
General comment: It's much easier to comprehend posts in mail lists or
reading through the archives if you quote something of what you're
responding to.
> Now, to the requirements talk: how important is the availability of
> revision history in this bare-bones wiki?
Seems important to me, but I'm not a wiki expert.
> What kind of authorship and administration
> would
> you (the granter or whomever, really) prefer? Every writer must have
> an account? Are there any accounts other than an administrator? I
> won't even get into admins, moderators, readers, editors, etc.
IMHO, it's good social sanity check to require author accounts.
> Text formatting is
> important
> (if relatively easy to hook up), but is being discussed,
> implementation-wise.
An extension of Perl6 POD would be interesting. As an option. And
maybe crazy.
> How
> about RSS feeds (which is usually more appropriate for versioned
> pages, et al, but is useful even for recently-updated pages)?
Don't know.
I like seeing Pugs svn commits on comp.perl6.language. Probably
doesn't scale well in the long run, but it seems to be a very good
idea to begin with.
> Do you
> want it to work with the concept of pages/topics or is there another
> way you want to represent the data?
Seems to work well enough for documentation purposes.
It would be very cool if the Pugs svn doc tree was mirrored in a
subsection of (the) Perl++ (Wiki), and could be {authored, edited}
through Perl++. I think that {simplification, convenience} would
greatly expand participation in generating Perl 6 documentation.
Interesting side note: "perl++" on Google shows this link as the 3rd
hit: (www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users).
Later on, a mechanism that made it feasible for smart IDEs to find
relevant Perl 6 Cookbook descriptions in Perl++ and lift code samples
would be very cool.
> What kind of categorization do
> you
> want to support?
Not sure I understand question.
> What kind of control do you want over the visual
> aspects (CSS, HTML, et al)? Did you have something in mind other
> than
> a web administration interface?
Not at the moment.
> What kind of moderation privileges
> would you like?
Omnipotent and clairvoyant. :-) But I'd settle for the minimum needed
to thwart religious editing wars, spamming, and so on.
> What basic actions do you want to perform for a page
> (or whatever)?
Don't know.
How about whatever twiki does? It's perl-ish and appears to be a
pretty substantial offering:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software).
> That's a lot to answer, I know.
I'm sure others can provide better answers.
Just $perl6.say .... # Needs work. JAPH needs to be updated. :-)
Best regards,
Conrad Schneiker
http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6_Users_FAQ (Moved from AthenaLab to Perl
6 Wiki.)
www.AthenaLab.com (Nano-electron-beam and micro-neutron-beam
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