On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:53:52AM -0500, Ben Hyde wrote: >... > It turns out if you build a event driven mail based notification system > you shortly there after discover that it's too painful to use. The > Wiki model results in editors writing changes so they can preview; and > in tangles of nodes going thru periods of total chaos[1] as an editor > attempts to make any changes that involve more than one node. Both > these make the change stream very hard to read. I suspect that much of > that could be resolved by sending mail with changes "when the dust > settles".
Bah. Use SubWiki, check out the Wiki pages into a working copy, make all your changes, then commit them. Regular commit email sends the full bunch of changes. Simple as that :-) Cheers, -g p.s. of course, if SubWiki were anything beyond pre-alpha, I might actually recommend deploying it to apache.org :-) -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
