shday schrieb: > I just discovered this place (http://docs.pythonweb.org) and I see > Alberto started a space for ToscaWidgets. I think the Confluence > software was a very good choice as it is probably one of the best wiki > engines out there.
Confluence surely looks nice and it has some nifty features (like the nice page info display) and seems pretty fast but I haven't found a must-have feature (related to keeping software documentation) yet that MoinMoin does not have. But I didn't find any "View page source" function. Does it have it? I had to look at page diffs to deduct that pages are in rest format. > I guess the fact that a python project chose to use > a java based wiki says something also. What does it say then? > Are there any plans to put other Turbogears stuff over there? The idea > of the site is to be a python web wiki, not just a pylons web wiki. > Seems like a good idea to me. Not to me. Firstly, I don't see a compelling reason to prefer confluence over MoinMoin (see above). MoinMoin and especially the installation at doc.turbogears.org have their problems, but most of these could be solved by a better template and CSS and maybe some MoinMoin plugins. Secondly, I'm deeply suspicious of putting the documentation of an open source project into a closed source software. Who is hosting this wiki? Is the open source project license for confluence guaranteed to be available for ever? Also for newer versions of the software? I also don't see much content not related to Pylons on this wiki. If the maintainers of this wiki want it to be a general place for Python-related documentation, they should get in contact with the python.org maintainers and discuss the various implications this has and try to get some official support from the PSF. Otherwise, it's just another Python wiki that adds to fragmentation. Thirdly, the effort to migrate the docs from one wiki to another is not to be underestimated. We still haven't managed to migrate all documentation from our Trac wiki to MoinMoin and clean up the Trac wiki afterwards. Granted, it seems that confluence supports rest, so there would be no need to reformat pages, but you still have to consider things like comments, keeping links, attachments and so on. I don't see that we have the resources to do this properly even if we wanted. So, if you have TurboGears-related documentation, please put it up on docs.turbogears.org. If you have problems with the MoinMoin wiki, please let us know, and we can see what can be done. Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Docs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-docs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
