G'Day Folks,
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:11:21PM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Christopher Frost <frostcs at gmail.com> [2007-05-31 12:55]:
> > We have been brainstorming a little bit recently about the direction of
> > a Wiki being integrated into the OpenSolaris Structure.
> >
> > Currently we have a brief option listing at
> > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolarisWiki
> > Which any volunteer/community-member has a right to comment on.
> >
> > I will be proposing a community sponsored project in the immediate
> > future and hope to gather a few more volunteers, a few more comments,
> > and perhaps a the support of the tools community.
> >
> > I feel this is something the community should have input in, and not
> > just internal Sun staff. The Sun staff should take part in the
> > community, not have the community take part in Sun.
> >
> > Feel free to speak your mind.
>
> The Tools CG already sponsors the Website Project for specifically
> this purpose. A key aspect of a new project proposal (that expects to
> gain Tools CG sponsorship) would be to answer what deficits in the
> existing project motivate the creation of a new one, and what attempts
> were made to correct those deficits previously by the proposers?
This seems reasonable (although I'm probably not the best person to
answer):
Deficits in the existing OpenSolaris editor (Tonic editor?):
- ACLs
- edit history, revision diffs
- good markup language (a better TML?)
- section edits
- export to XML (PDF, DocBook)
- customisable look-and-feel
- performance issues (timeouts, latency)
Any of the leading wikis, such as MediaWiki, would solve most or all of
these.
What attempts were made to correct these so far:
I don't know who has tried what exactly. It would be news to me if all
of these can be fixed on the current software.
Brendan
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Brendan
[CA, USA]
