From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
Cc: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Techdocs v2 |
Date: | 2004-06-03 23:44:01 |
Message-ID: | 200406031644.01150.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Dave, Robert:
> IIRC that is the wiki site that Justin started but later abandoned due
> to software issues and then "retirement", so no one is working on that
> v2.
V2 was based on Zope/Plone, which we discovered to have abysmal performance on
the postgresql.org BSD VM. Certainly it wouldn't be able to sustain the
thousands of people a day that buzz through Techdocs (or used to, anyway).
>Josh was leading some folks on a bricolage version of the site but
> I believe that sputtered out due to lack of time to actually get
> everything working under bric.
Yeah. The holdup is the templating, which requires a knowledge of Mason.
Unforntunately, I've been unable to locate anyone who knows Mason and has any
free time at all.
> I have been investigating some wikis myself for a new version of
> techdocs, and I think I could settle on twiki, or at least if Marc wants
> to install it (it should be in ports) I'd be willing to put some content
> up.
A wiki would be fine in general. I like what we have up for "guides".
One request, though: I'd like it to be possible to flag some pages as
"modifiable only by owner". The issue is that sometimes I will want to put
content on Techdocs that has special copyright restrictions (such as magazine
article reprints). This would mean preventing most users from modifying
that page. I know that others have similar content up.
That's the main issue that prevented me from being gung-ho about a wiki for
techdocs earlier.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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