On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:01 -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> [2007-06-06 08:14]: > > >Is there opposition to a wiki? I haven't seen any and many people using > > >the genunix wiki successfully. > > > > Yes there is. From the folks maintaining and open sourcing the software that > > this site is based on . (I think it's called Jive?) > > (Jive is the forum software.) Yes, and (to add)I think the owners of that software wouldn't be too happy if it was opened. (Not Sun Software) :-)
There isn't opposition to a wiki. It's much more complicated then that. The base complications come from legal, authentication, and maintenance. The wiki hopefully will make the 'folks' jobs easier, without making it harder first. The easy thing to say about the Genunix wiki is that ANYONE can use it. It currently could not/would not be the same case, if we were to deploy a wiki instantly on OpenSolaris.org but, some of us are trying. > > As far as I know, Eric, Christopher, Michelle, and folks from this > Group are getting wiki requirements together for deployment on > opensolaris.org. That discussion is happening on website-discuss, > with supporting documentation being developed on genunix.org. You are > welcome to review the requirements so far, and suggest candidates. Yes, we are all trying our best to achieve a wiki that plays well with everything else. I've been quiet for a few days on this, apart from my regular job, I have been researching the legal hassles which will interfere with this current proposals. Hopefully I can make some progress on this, but the current way some things are setup (nobodies fault) interferes with the whole concept of a wiki. Also, the website team has been kind enough to document their procedures and future tasks on their project page. I've been reviewing that when I can, but between the two things it's quite a handful. Hopefully I can shed some more light the wiki-addition in the near future. > > There is opposition to "just throw something up there", if that's what > you mean. Those of us on pager duty like to know what we're getting > into... > > - Stephen Hopefully that was never really the intent of anyone. Though I think the wiki itself should come with some people willing to admin it as well. That way it can also take a bit of load off the website team's hands as well. It sounds like it could be welcomed if it was manageable mainly within itself. Christopher
