This email summarizes the "4 static pages" issue that came up in a wiki
planning meeting recently; Sheila, here's that recap I was going to do.
The bottom line: No worries; I've reviewed the legacy list and there's
nothing to flag for Preview.
The issue: we've decided to put all the content we can on the wiki, for
ease of maintenance. But not every single page is suited to being a
dynamic wiki page, for various reasons of performance, design
flexibility, access control, or media-embedding reasons.
Pieter, in the April timeframe, did an analysis of "what pages need to
be static or otherwise treated differently than wiki page"?
The results of that analysis were written up in the Community meeting notes:
http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/CommunityMtg20070406
There, Pieter references a google spreadsheet:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pP90TPgaKp_N8fH1RZVtiHg&pli=1
with his results.
He identified four pages that he thought probably should be treated as
static:
* The landing page (http://chandlerproject.org/)
* The philosophy page ("index to ppt & pdf documents stored on wiki")
* The screenshots page ("big page lots of images")
* release_notes.0.6.php ("big page lots of images")
The landing page, we're still intending to be static HTML for both
performance and visual control reasons.
The next three, "a page with lots of media", are somewhat
miscategorized; it's ok to embed media onto wiki pages, even video and
flash and Java. For some particularly large resources, I may pull IT
rank and specify that the big file itself which is embedded on those
wiki pages should not use the standard /pub attachment mechanism for
performance, but we can address those as they come up.
We may want a "plainer" page for a screenshots page, though we can
simplify the skin (really down to nothing) on any given wiki page (set
SKIN = plain for blank template)
So Mimi, Sheila, that probably the only interesting bit from the
investigation: the screenshots backend. The image links on the landing
page probably link to larger versions; where do they link to? I think
we want a ticket for "create screenshots wiki page"? Or did you have
another mechanism in mind?
-- Jared
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