On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:20:35PM -0700, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems 
wrote:

> 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.

Well, anything *can* be fixed; it's just software, after all.  But I
would indeed be interested in learning why, for instance, ACLs still
don't exist given that I remember discussing them as an alternative to
a separate wiki at least 2 years ago, and at one time I had thought
this was on the web site road map.

-- 
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