On Feb 27, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
On Feb 27, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Craig Russell wrote:
On Feb 27, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
I'd like to strongly lobby that the website is built some other way - we are changing how we do Geronimo as we've gotten to the point where the current site is unbuildable, and thus this discourages people adding to the site, and drives them to the wiki which in some ways is like handing them chalk and sending them out to the sidewalk.
The wiki has served well so far, and I agree that it's like a chalk/sidewalk paradigm, that's what we need right now. We probably need to learn to use the JIRA tool to be better organized as well.
They are tools for different things. JIRA is for tracking bugs and feature requests. Wiki is good for the communal brainstorming, but nothing beats a well done project site.
I agree with you that the wiki used by Apache is ill-suited for building websites. There are other Wiki servers that have features such as permissions and templating which are much better at website building. For example, the Groovy website (http://groovy.codehaus.org/) is based on the Confluence wiki.
Anyway, just wanted to clear up a common misbelief about wiki software :)
-dain
