Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Holzt
> It's completely up to Michael to decide for as long as he is running > the wiki. Which does not mean that i won't run another software if this is a.) acceptable for me security wise and b.) a majority asks for it. But there is currently no need to change the wiki software because we've (we as

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-30 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jan 30, 2007, at 19:15, Bill Jones wrote: I mean since they are both written in Perl and you may want to start change just a few small things in Twiki. It's completely up to Michael to decide for as long as he is running the wiki. If we ever want to change to something else than docuwi

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-30 Thread Bill Jones
On 1/4/07, James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My preference is TWiki - stable, powerful, extensible and Perl rather than PHP. I realize I may likely be an unwelcome stranger and more likely my opinion means naught; however I must throw my 2 cents in (it's the way I am.) Feel free to de

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 17:02 -0500, David Kaufman wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Holzt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. > > > > Sorry, twiki isn't going to be installed on _any_ machine controlled > > by me. twiki has a bad history of (overly stu

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2007-05-01 at 08:07 +1100, James Turnbull wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Guy Hulbert wrote: > > I don't think this is inconsistent with what I said. You have now > > confirmed your decision to not host the wiki if it must be twiki and if > > that is the case

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Michael, Michael Holzt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. Sorry, twiki isn't going to be installed on _any_ machine controlled by me. twiki has a bad history of (overly stupid!) security incidents I was unhappy with my experiences with TWiki, to

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guy Hulbert wrote: > I don't think this is inconsistent with what I said. You have now > confirmed your decision to not host the wiki if it must be twiki and if > that is the case then I am willing to try to pick it up. I will keep > your opinions i

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 17:32 +0100, Michael Holzt wrote: > > Unless and until Michael decides that he no longer wants to host the > > wiki, I think he has the final word. > > No. While i "own" qpsmtpd.org and run the current wiki, my opinion is in > no way superiour than those of others. If the pro

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Tom Smith
Guy Hulbert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 08:22 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: You may want to try etch. I expect to type: apt-get install twiki Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is gcc4--versions before that were not. All of the extra Perl modules I needed on 6.06 were installable via apt--only on

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Holzt
> Unless and until Michael decides that he no longer wants to host the > wiki, I think he has the final word. No. While i "own" qpsmtpd.org and run the current wiki, my opinion is in no way superiour than those of others. If the project (as represented by us all) feels that a twiki would help it a

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Holzt
> Unless and until Michael decides that he no longer wants to host the > wiki, I think he has the final word. No. While i "own" qpsmtpd.org and run the current wiki, my opinion is in no way superiour than those of others. If the project (as represented by us all) feels that a twiki would help it a

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 08:22 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > > You may want to try etch. I expect to type: > > > > apt-get install twiki > > > > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is gcc4--versions before that were not. > > All of the extra Perl modules I needed on 6.06 were installable via > apt--only one came

RE: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 16:54 +0100, Arnaud ASSAD wrote: > If twiki appears to be the best choice for most of the people, maybe > we > should all consider it on a pragmatic way. Unless and until Michael decides that he no longer wants to host the wiki, I think he has the final word. I am going to l

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Holzt
> I can't really comment on your situation because I wasn't there... But I > think that sometimes it's prudent to keep such security problems > "secret" until a solution is found. > Discussing them (and their solutions) on mailing lists and such is one > thing, but publicly announcing the probl

RE: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:54 +0100, Arnaud ASSAD wrote: > If twiki appears to be the best choice for most of the people, maybe we > should all consider it on a pragmatic way. If it good enough for these guys... http://wiki.java.net (Just thought that was an interesting place to find a perl-based

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 09:53 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:34 +0100, Michael Holzt wrote: > > Sorry, twiki isn't going to be installed on _any_ machine controlled by > > me. twiki has a bad history of (overly stupid!) security incidents and > > its main developer (Peter Tho

RE: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Arnaud ASSAD
origine- > De : Michael Holzt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : jeudi 4 janvier 2007 16:35 > À : qpsmtpd@perl.org > Objet : Re: Future of the wiki in 2007? > > > I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. > > Sorry, twiki isn't going to be installed on _an

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 16:34 +0100, Michael Holzt wrote: > > I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. > > Sorry, twiki isn't going to be installed on _any_ machine controlled > by > me. twiki has a bad history of (overly stupid!) security incidents > and > its main developer (Peter Tho

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:34 +0100, Michael Holzt wrote: > Sorry, twiki isn't going to be installed on _any_ machine controlled by > me. twiki has a bad history of (overly stupid!) security incidents and > its main developer (Peter Thoeny) has reacted very unfriendly and also > unprofessional to p

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread tony
Johan Almqvist writes: However even if there was a separate plugin repository and a vBulletin, I'd still want the wiki to direct all the forum (and list) RTFM's to... You just make those stick at the top of the (sub)forums... With the added benefit that you get a sort of web-of-trust as well

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Tom Smith
Michael Holzt wrote: I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. Sorry, twiki isn't going to be installed on _any_ machine controlled by me. twiki has a bad history of (overly stupid!) security incidents and its main developer (Peter Thoeny) has reacted very unfriendly and also u

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Holzt
> I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. Sorry, twiki isn't going to be installed on _any_ machine controlled by me. twiki has a bad history of (overly stupid!) security incidents and its main developer (Peter Thoeny) has reacted very unfriendly and also unprofessional to people rep

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Tom Smith
Guy Hulbert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 07:58 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: The largest installation woes... - Perl modules--most are part of standard Perl, but some had to be added CPAN is your friend ... but it's getting to be a bit of a monster. My strategy is to use it for a test ins

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Leander Koornneef
On 4-jan-2007, at 15:57, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 15:14 +0100, Leander Koornneef wrote: May be a few days before I report further ... This may save you a bit of work if it's just for testing: Yeah. Saw that. However ... http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiVMDebian

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Tom Smith
Robin Bowes wrote: Guy Hulbert wrote: There are better python wikis than trac. In particular moin-moin is quite close to the present docu-wiki. Moin-moin versus trac: http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MoinMoin+TracWiki Trac is missing a lot. I don't entirely disagree, but trac is m

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 07:58 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > The largest installation woes... > > - Perl modules--most are part of standard Perl, but some had to be > added CPAN is your friend ... but it's getting to be a bit of a monster. My strategy is to use it for a test install and then save all

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Tom Smith
Arnaud ASSAD wrote: I'd also like to keep the wiki. To my mind, the tool is ok, We (In fact I should use 'I') only have to contribute more. There is, for example, a lot of knowledge on the ML which has not be put back on the wiki. One could also at how to create a mailing list archive with

RE: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 15:43 +0100, Arnaud ASSAD wrote: > I'd also like to keep the wiki. > > To my mind, the tool is ok, We (In fact I should use 'I') only have to > contribute more. > > There is, for example, a lot of knowledge on the ML which has not be put > back on the wiki. Twiki should be

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Tom Smith
Guy Hulbert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 07:43 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote: I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. It seems that the latest twiki will be in etch and I have been planning to upgrade my server anyway. My thoughts have changed a bit since looking at the

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 15:14 +0100, Leander Koornneef wrote: > > May be a few days before I report further ... > > This may save you a bit of work if it's just for testing: Yeah. Saw that. However ... > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiVMDebianStable > > Leander ... I don't use win

RE: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Arnaud ASSAD
chael Holzt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : jeudi 4 janvier 2007 12:05 > À : qpsmtpd@perl.org > Objet : Future of the wiki in 2007? > > As some of you might or might now know, i'm the holder of the qpsmtpd.org > domain and also host the qpsmtpd wiki on wiki.qpsmtpd.org. Now whi

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Tom Smith
James Turnbull wrote: Michael Holzt wrote: the page which is easily confused with a real navigation). So if one has better suggestions (i would also like to get rid of the security nightmare also known as php), i would like to hear about it. My preference is TWiki - stable, powerful, e

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Leander Koornneef
On 4-jan-2007, at 14:54, Guy Hulbert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 07:43 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote: I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. It seems that the latest twiki will be in etch and I have been planning to upgrade my server anyway. My thoughts have changed a bit since lo

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 07:43 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > I guess I would vote for Twiki if we were changing. > > It seems that the latest twiki will be in etch and I have been > planning > to upgrade my server anyway. My thoughts have changed a bit since looking at the source. The install guide

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 23:58 +1100, James Turnbull wrote: > > I don't feel either of these will be a good replacement for the > current > > wiki. I agree that placing the plugin repository in the wiki wasn't > the > > best idea (I just couldn't think of a better way of doing it at the > time). > >

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread James Turnbull
Johan Almqvist wrote: >> 1) a vBulleting-webboard, and >> 2) rsync so that all those that want to can have their set of plugins >> in use (check with the configfile, and only rsync the active ones) >> shared with the world. > > I don't feel either of these will be a good replacement for the curren

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
[ apologies for replying to my own post ... I delete most things after I read them but sent-mail is always there ] On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 06:58 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 11:26 +, Robin Bowes wrote: > > Michael Holzt wrote: > > > As some of you might or might now know, i'

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Johan Almqvist
Hello everyone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Holzt writes: As some of you might or might now know, i'm the holder of the qpsmtpd.org domain and also host the qpsmtpd wiki on wiki.qpsmtpd.org. Now while the wiki still seems to be a good idea, i've noticed that there have been next to no cont

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 12:12 +, Robin Bowes wrote: > Guy Hulbert wrote: > > > There are better python wikis than trac. In particular moin-moin is > > quite close to the present docu-wiki. > > > > Moin-moin versus trac: > > http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MoinMoin+TracWiki > > > > Trac is m

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Robin Bowes
Guy Hulbert wrote: > There are better python wikis than trac. In particular moin-moin is > quite close to the present docu-wiki. > > Moin-moin versus trac: > http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MoinMoin+TracWiki > > Trac is missing a lot. I don't entirely disagree, but trac is more than just a w

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2007-04-01 at 11:26 +, Robin Bowes wrote: > Michael Holzt wrote: > > As some of you might or might now know, i'm the holder of the qpsmtpd.org > > domain and also host the qpsmtpd wiki on wiki.qpsmtpd.org. Now while the > > wiki still seems to be a good idea, i've noticed that there hav

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread tony
Michael Holzt writes: As some of you might or might now know, i'm the holder of the qpsmtpd.org domain and also host the qpsmtpd wiki on wiki.qpsmtpd.org. Now while the wiki still seems to be a good idea, i've noticed that there have been next to no contributions to it lately. This is a bit of a

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Holzt wrote: > As some of you might or might now know, i'm the holder of the qpsmtpd.org > domain and also host the qpsmtpd wiki on wiki.qpsmtpd.org. Now while the > wiki still seems to be a good idea, i've noticed that there have been next > to no contributions to it lately. This is a bit

Re: Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread James Turnbull
Michael Holzt wrote: > As some of you might or might now know, i'm the holder of the qpsmtpd.org > domain and also host the qpsmtpd wiki on wiki.qpsmtpd.org. Now while the > wiki still seems to be a good idea, i've noticed that there have been next > to no contributions to it lately. This is a bit

Future of the wiki in 2007?

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Holzt
As some of you might or might now know, i'm the holder of the qpsmtpd.org domain and also host the qpsmtpd wiki on wiki.qpsmtpd.org. Now while the wiki still seems to be a good idea, i've noticed that there have been next to no contributions to it lately. This is a bit of a shame, as qpsmtpd lacks