Hi, Dashamir: You could be right about the relative difficulties. Maybe extending MoinMoin would be easier. But as with any open source project, it's easy to wish for things--harder to make change happen. Somebody (or some people) have to step up and either sponsor the development or do it themselves.
I will say, in case people haven't been tracking this, MoinMoin just last week did merge some DocBook code from a 1.6 branch into the main 1.7 trunk. You can read more about that here: http://moinmo.in/DocBook However, these updates are by no means the complete DocBook solution for MoinMoin--and more work still needs to be done. In fact, MoinMoin on their website is actively trying to recruit a DocBook champion to steer and take ownership of their DocBook development. It appears to be a wide open field. Extending MoinMoin with a DocBook Wiki plug-in could be on the table--or not, depending on who steps up to do (or sponsor) the work. Regards, Pierce Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > Pierce, > > I don't regret that you have selected MoinMoin. I like it myself. > However it could be more easy to extend DocBook features of MoinMoin > than to integrate MoinMoin and DocBookWiki. > > Regards, > Dashamir > > Pierce Tyler wrote: >> Hi, Fintan: >> >> That is a very interesting idea. It would give users the best of both >> worlds, really. >> >> We recently finished evaluating wikis for implementation at our site. >> And the choice came down to MoinMoin vs. DocBook Wiki. It was an >> extremely tough choice. Both packages have strengths and weaknesses. But >> in the end we went with MoinMoin because the community is larger and >> more active and development is moving forward. >> >> While MoinMoin does offer some DocBook support, that support is not >> nearly as extensive as DocBook Wiki's. Also, the backend SVN support >> offered by DocBook Wiki is something MoinMoin does not currently offer. >> >> I suppose integrating a PHP-based application with MoinMoin, which is >> written in Python, could pose some challenges. But, again, I really like >> this idea if it were possible--or if people were interested in trying to >> make it happen. >> >> Best regards, >> Pierce >> >> >> Bolton, Fintan wrote: >>> Hello Dashamir, >>> >>> I wonder if you have ever considered re-packaging DocBook Wiki as a >>> plug-in to one of the mainstream Wikis, such as Confluence or Moin-Moin? >>> >>> It is a peculiar paradox that, although DocBook Wiki has much better >>> DocBook support than any other Wiki out there, it has failed to gain >>> much traction in the Wiki space. I suspect the reason for this is that >>> there is currently a rather high threshold to getting a new Wiki flavour >>> accepted. For example, on a typical open source project, you would have >>> very little prospect of persuading an open source community to drop >>> Moin-Moin or Confluence in favour of a little-known product like DocBook >>> Wiki. Even persuading the community to adopt it as an 'extra' Wiki would >>> probably be an uphill battle. >>> >>> In marketing terms, therefore, it would be much easier to get DocBook >>> Wiki accepted if it came in the form of a Confluence or Moin-Moin >>> plug-in. Adding plug-ins to Wikis is a routine procedure that would be >>> unlikely to arouse much controversy in an open source community. >>> >>> Of course, I am glossing over the technical difficulties here, which >>> might be considerable. But the integration would not have to be perfect. >>> The main goal would be to make DocBook Wiki look similar enough to the >>> host Wiki, so that it can gain acceptance. On a technical level, >>> probably the main priorities would be to integrate user administration >>> with the host Wiki and to change the appearance of the pages to look >>> more like the host Wiki. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Fintan >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------- >>> IONA Technologies GmbH (registriert in Deutschland, AG Darmstadt) >>> Registernummer: HRB 7939 >>> Geschäftsadresse: Im Leuschnerpark 4, D- 64347 Griesheim, Deutschland >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >>> Defy all challenges. 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