Roland Mainz wrote:
I know... but it renders the site useless for _me_ (as project lead) since I cannot upload my pages. That's one of the reasons why I am more and more unhappy with the choice of a Wiki as main webpage engine (mozilla.org had a similar experiment which they aborted (I can only be described as catastrophy since the engine neither scaled nor was it resistant to DOS attacks) after _one_ day and right now I see the same happen again for OpenSolaris.org (yes yes, right now it's not in the final state and I shouldn't complain about work-in-progress... but somehow it feels like "repeated history" for me)).
Sorry, we've already been through this, and the discussion is not going to be reopened 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. 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.
As said on IRC I would prefer a simpler system consisting out of a Subversion tree for main and project pages (mozilla.org, mozdev.org etc. use this scheme for their webpages) and run the wiki as http://wiki.opensolaris.org/.
That's because you are familiar with SCM technology and are capable of building an 'offline' version of a set of pages and uploading them. That's not the case for many of our communities, and we have to provide something that the majority of people can use easily.
I would suggest that you would have been better expressing your views where people are going to see them, i.e. on a mailing list and not IRC.
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