Hi Jason,

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 20:00:44 -0800, Jason Dagit wrote:
> So, this is me publicly suggesting that we consider, or evaluate, the
> potential use of gitit for the darcs project.  Here are some of the reasons
> why I think this is a good idea:
> 1) Assuming that the darcs project is user #0 of libdarcs this could be used
> to give us user #1.

Sounds like an interesting idea.  I can definitely see the benefits of
improving the integration between all our different kinds of
documentation.

I personally find our current MoinMoin software to be a bit cumbersome
(although right now I think my main complaint are that you can't
selectively edit individual sections of a document, and that users have
a hard time figuring out how to log in).

> a) gitit is still young.
> b) libdarcs isn't ready *today* to be the backend.
> c) Porting the existing wiki content.

That said, I think we should take (a) very seriously.  For example, does
gitit have some kind of even rudimentary anti-spam measure?

Moreover, I think we should consider

  (d) we have other fish to fry right now.

Our community has been growing recently, and I am both very grateful and
excited to see this.  Nevertheless, we are still small enough that we
have to be very disciplined about setting priorities and not letting our
attention wander too much.  It's really great what wonderful things come
out of our collective imagination, and I hope to see many more wacky
ideas in the future.  In the meantime, I recommend that that we re-open
the discussion when we have met these other objectives:
 - patch tracker
 - benchmarking
 - darcs 2.2
 - libdarcs (this is the cabal file work that we just need to do)
 - restisation of the manual

We should definitely keep something like this

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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