On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:31:11PM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > This all sounds cool. I have a few concerns with this proposal: > > - source documents living under modperl cvs are to be written in POD. > The project that you suggest should be able to accept this and other > formats as a source. Afterwards it can convert it to many other formats. > Matt has already done some work on porting PODs into XML. I don't see this as a problem. I was just picking a format out of the air as a starting point. TMTOWTDI and PCDAA (Perl Can Do Almost Anything). > - where the actual converted knowledge base will be hosted? I mean who > will host the production version? It's possible that we can get a > machine at apache.org, but this is one of the things to worry about. If > things need to be dynamically generated, we cannot do this from the same > machine the modperl-site is hosted on (daedalus). I can't answer that at the moment. > - we need someone to commit to lead the project, or things would never > take off just like it has happened before. Well, I can lead the code development, but I can't commit to anything more than that at the moment. I won't be able to do even that until after the semester starts (classes start 27 Aug, we have several things to get done before then). > > Now to see if I can get my boss to support me spending time on such a > > project :) > > I hope he does. Really! He was very receptive yesterday evening. Wants to see a proposal (what TAMU would be committing to) before giving the final go ahead. We will probably need to involve our helpdesk people in some of the user-interface design. We will need a design document before coding so we know what we're aiming at. I can lead on that. --James
