Hello everybody. I have a somewhat difficult decision to make regarding one of my fields, and I thought I'd get input from the Boltwire comunity too.
I am using one wiki as the primary administration tool of my theatre group. It's primary purpose (although it's damn useful across the board) is to allow a large group of people to simulatnously write the manuscript for our play. While the Boltwire wiki was an amazing improvement over our last writing organisation (which was virtually nonexistant), it simply does not have enough control over multiple users wanting to edit the same page/section, and ... well, basically it isnt the subversion version control system, and I need it to be. Now, I can fix this in two ways: a) I could move away from Boltwire and try ikiwiki, which is based on subversion. The positive sides are: I don't have to write it myself It works well once it's installed It does not require that apache has write permissions, which could be a small security bonus but it's unlikely to be relevant The negative sides are: I'd have to teach people new wiki markup (although the changes are slight) The ikiwiki homepage is ugly, difficult to navigate, and I do not know the community as well as Boltwires. I *like* boltwire. I probably have to recreate the whole site for the new iteration, instead of just moving the current content-pages to old.content. b) I could write a subversion plugin for boltwire, completly changing "edit" and "history" functionality, and generally recreating the ikiwiki functionality on boltwire. The positive sides are: I basically know how, I wouldnt need to learn a new system I wouldnt need to create my own site in ikiwiki markup, but could re- use this site the negative sides are: It would take me around 2 whole days of coding and weeks of debugging and tuning. Time I do not have. It is silly to recreate functionality that exists, unless you learn from it, and I would learn very little. What do you guys think I should do? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
