Joshua Slive wrote:
On 8/16/07, Tony Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good day,
Earlier today whilst reading through some of the infra@ postings I
happened across a mail which was referring to another wiki platform that
the ASF use. CWIKI.
I have no particular attachment to moinmoin (or wikis in general), but
a few notes:
1. confluence is not open source, which is a big strike against it for
us (not just on philosophical grounds, but also on practical grounds
for a tech-oriented non-profit wanting to maintain control of its
"knowledge resources").
2. confluence is way more resource hungry and less stable than moinmoin.
3. Many projects use confluence as a pure content management system to
generate their project docs. We have another system to generate our
project docs and use moinmoin as a real wiki to encourage public
contributions. The extra features of confluence are less attractive in
this situation. If you are proposing that we use confluence to
generate our official docs, that is a whole other ball of wax and
would, I'm sure, involve massive changes in how we do things.
No I was not suggesting we change the docs-build process, not by any
stretch of the imagination. Rather it could possibly have been used to
promote material from the wiki to the docs.
4. While confluence can export html, moinmoin is fronted by mod_cache,
making it very light-weight for read-only use.
Fair enough, thus negating my earlier (possibly, now confirmed moot point).
5. moinmoin is also somewhat customizable. See the spamassassin wiki,
for example.
Ok, fair point.
I believe it is very premature to call for a vote. I'd first like to
see some very concrete reason why confluence would be substantially
better.
Ok, maybe vote was not the right word in this case. Comments, perhaps :-)
Ok, so on reflection, maybe confluence is not such a hot idea. I guess
my main driver for this was to find an easy path for docs to be
promoted, and a rather more selfish personal one, I don't care too much
for Moin, the alternative just looked far superior.
I tell you what, lets forget I sent the mail, and I will look for an
alternative method, possibly continue to hack on yango's (from #apache)
attempts at an XLST.
Cheers,
Tony
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