I may have gotten the wrong impression, but it seems all SideWiki content is stored in Google. I have a thing about letting Google owning all the world's data.
Paul On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: >> Can we defer the research into another wiki? I would at least get into >> Confluence and then move everything to something new, if desired. > > Sigh. Please just take 2 minutes to look at what Sidewiki is. It's not > something else we would move our content to, it's an alternative means > for the community to add content to existing pages. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > >> Paul >> >> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> Thanks Martin and Wendy for your replies. >>>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> If you're concerned about the need for committership, then certainly >>>>> the bar is a bit higher than just filing an iCLA. However, it's >>>>> absolutely possible to gain committership for documentation, rather >>>>> than code. I can think of two people, off the top of my head, who have >>>>> been given committership in Struts primarily for documentation, at >>>>> least initially. If there are people who are contributing patches for >>>>> the docs, then perhaps we should be looking at that. >>>> >>>> I didn't know people could be given committer rights to only >>>> documentation. Last time I probed this topic, I was told (and the >>>> email thread exists somewhere) that there are no such thing as partial >>>> rights -- you get to commit access to everything (or nothing) under >>>> the struts group. >>> >>> That's not what I meant. Sorry if I wasn't clear. It's still true that >>> commit access is for all of the Struts repo and not for pieces of it. >>> What I meant is that people can earn commit rights on the basis of >>> their work on documentation. Merit is not confined only to code. >>> >>> -- >>> Martin Cooper >>> >>> >>>> Since Confluence is a different system, perhaps >>>> things became more lenient when I wasn't looking. >>>> >>>>> One other option that comes to mind is Sidewiki. I haven't actually >>>>> played with this myself yet, but it seems like it might be an >>>>> interesting option for allowing anyone to add content and comments >>>>> alongside the official docs. Anyone have an opinion on how viable, or >>>>> otherwise, this might be? >>>> >>>> I wasn't hoping to open up a new wiki discussion ;-) but I do remember >>>> some committers saying they're unhappy with Confluence. If all of >>>> Struts could put their documentation in one place, I am willing to go >>>> wherever the group decides. >>>> >>>>> So I guess what I'm saying is that no, I don't think I have "technical >>>>> objections", but I think there might be other alternatives worth >>>>> discussing too. Migrating the docs would not be an easy task! >>>> >>>> Yes, I don't look forward to it, but I think keeping it in SVN is akin >>>> to being frozen in an ice-berg. Even I hate editing it. Anyway, with >>>> the help of Lukasz, I hope it is easier. >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
