On 12/7/06, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
or maybe you should ask yourself if people didn't want to maintain them because they didn't do the job for them (my case).
Valid point, but in the case of the current wikis it tends to be (historically) that people jump up and say they're willing to maintain them, and then vanish 6 months down the road when there's still work to be done. Now, the confluence wiki appears to have generated itself some active volunteers lately, which is nice, but if you look at the general history of all the wikis at the ASF the common case tends to be abandonment.
I can ask for a lab to explore the use of semantic mediawiki as semi-structured content management for labs and that would give me the right to run it on our zone (once we get it). And if we fail to maintain it or fail to get traction, we shut it down, along with the lab, no harm done. Would you still be against that?
If you want to do something like that I'd be fine with it, so long as it's abundantly clear what the limitations on its use are. I'd hate for it to evolve from "an experiment in semi-structured content management" into "a production service that we maintain for many projects" without some clear buy in from infra to maintain it going forward. -garrett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
