On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Brian Chamberlain
<[email protected]> wrote:
> There is something very intriguing about this idea to build a wiki based on
> CouchDB. It seems like a perfect match for the database. However, there is a
> (somewhat) immediate need for a better functioning wiki. What about just
> fixing the existing system? Can we figure out why there are 500 errors from
> time to time and why it is so slow? If we can get the current system to limp
> along for a few more months it will give us time to organize a focused effort
> build a Couch based wiki.
>
> However, if no one thinks that we should try to build a CouchDB based wiki
> anytime soon, and a well functioning wiki trumps building our own, then we
> should just switch now to whatever is most popular (because this will mean
> more people are familiar with it's markup and editing system), and move on.
> Eventually the community will develop a wiki based on couch and when it's
> mature we can switch to that.
>
> just a thought
>
> -Brian
>
Next version of couch.it is a couchapp. I planned to finish it before
my pres @fosdem. Was distracted thsese days, but time to finish it.
Also a wiki will depends on url rewriting since we don't really want
long urls for such apps.
