> I disagree. If the Wiki causes _major_ disruption for projects and > communites compared to the current Jive engine then we have to revisit > this discussion and may have to choose a _working_ alternative. Using > the current state of the XWiki on hub.opensolaris.org as > http://www.opensolaris.org/ is something which I would challange at OGB > level if neccesary (and I think we'll get substancial complains from > other project leads once they realise what's going on (again, that was > the case at mozilla.org where the project owners forced the removal of > the Wiki within _one_ day)).
Jive is the package that implements the OSO forums, it has nothing to do with the community web pages. And as I've already said, the discussion and decision were made quite some time ago, and will not be revisited at this point. >> To address your immediate point, the XWiki site is *not* intended for >> bulk uploads of HTML pages, because it is very difficult to make them >> look like an integrated part of the site. The intention is that people >> will use the XWiki functionality to maintain their community's pages. > > The HTML pages (generated from DocBook) _are_ our community pages. We > need them as integrated part of our project and preferable not hosted > "elsewhere". The can be added as attachments to a wiki page, but unless you are prepared to change them into XWiki format, they can't be hosted as XWiki pages. >> We will probably provide a separate site for 'bulk uploads' of the sort >> you describe, something along the lines of cr.opensolaris.org but for >> HTML and tarballs. We don't yet have an ETA for that though. > > If we can't use or upload HTML pages as an integrated part of the > Wiki... why should we have the Wiki then at all ? The Wiki should make > things better than the current Jive engine and not _worse_ (originally I > couldn't imagine something "worse then Jive" ... but it looks the > current XWiki stuff has some holes as large as the milky way... ;-( ). That's entirely your prerogative - nothing is forcing you to use the facilities we are providing. -- Alan Burlison --
