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.
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Alan Burlison
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