* John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-20 19:37]: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > I don't have an opinion on languages, but your following sentence > > isn't recognizing the goals of the requirements. The wiki component > > must be a well-behaved component in a larger application. MediaWiki > > is not designed to be a well-behaved component--it is designed to be a > > site. Projects have fallen mightily trying to make it otherwise... > > One of the goals of this effort is to relax the requirements that > everything to be tightly integrated into a single large application. > > If Alan's delegation/federation is successful, there is no need to convert > something like mediawiki into a component... > > Genunix's wiki shows that mediawiki as-is is good enough. If it can > be easily skinned, use external auth, and [the other E-requirements], > then, even if it has to live as wiki.os.o, things should still be OK.
I think we're agreeing--because external auth was once a big pain for some of the wikis--but it made me realize that the requirements don't say whether we are building http://wiki.opensolaris.org/ which can look like a wiki, or replacing the content handler behind http://opensolaris.org/ which should only look like a wiki some of the time. - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
