On 20 May 2008, at 19:57, John Plocher wrote:

>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/wiki_requirements/
>
>> E3 The software must be Java based
>>
>> In order that the wiki software can be extended and maintained,  
>> given the infrastructure resources, the most sensible choice of  
>> technology on which to base the software is Java.
>
>
> This requirement seems out of place here.  In particular, I believe  
> it will tend
> to drive the decision away from proven, high quality wikis like  
> mediawiki towards
> fringe offerings whose primary attribute is being written in Java.
>
> Personally, I'd rather trade off a slightly higher cost of  
> maintenance for
> the huge usability, familiarity, stability and worldwide usage of  
> mediawiki.
>
> PHP, Ruby, Python and Perl are all great web-development languages;  
> there is no
> reason why we must be Java-only by policy.  "Java" may well be a  
> "plus" in the
> evaluation, and I have no issues with it being a conditional or  
> optional
> requirement.  But it certainly isn't essential.
>
>
>   -John
>
>
>


I agree totaly especialy since all the php, ruby and python stuff can  
be used with their respecitve j engines, i.e. caucus, jruby and  
jython ..



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