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Re: [MANTA] wiki?


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  • From: Abe Stephens <abe@sci.utah.edu>
  • To: manta@sci.utah.edu
  • Subject: Re: [MANTA] wiki?
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:01:30 -0700
I agree- back in high school I ran my own mysql server on a freebsd box--it seems like there is a considerable amount of overhead if we go that route--in highschool this overhead was what made it "fun". (Although if one was to appear, work correctly and maintain itself magically forever it would be a better solution.)

Since it's possible to browse the svn repository with a web browser it seems reasonable that web pages related to different sections of the repository could even live right in place (or in Manta/Doc for example). As long as the pages are relatively simple it shouldn't be difficult to edit them with emacs/mozilla/etc.

Abe

Christiaan Paul Gribble wrote:

Personally, I think the svn web site route is worth trying, at least for the time being. It seems that there would be less overhead in getting it going. If it doesn't work out like we want, we can always try something more complicated...

C

James Bigler wrote:

Another option I thought of was to keep the web page as a SVN repository. If you wish to edit the web site you could check out a copy edit the page and check it back in. The checkin process would trigger an update of the web page.

This has some advantages and disadvantages over a wiki.

1.  Those who have SVN access can automatically get wiki access.
2. Depending on the Wiki implementation we have an automatic history of changes that we can roll back of someone does something silly.
3.  It won't require having an SQL component on our web server.

Disadvantages:

1. You have to check out/update the complete web site to do even the most minor change. Perhaps you can check out a single file. I'll have to look into that.
2. Someone has to write a script to update the live website once a checking occurs.
3. The web site most likely will need to reside on the same server as the SVN repository.
4.  Anyone with SVN access gets access to the web page.

James

Andrew Kensler wrote:

I run a PHPWiki (http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/) as a forum to keep in touch with some of my college friends. It's been years since I set it up, though, so I'm not sure which Wiki implementation is superior at the moment. But as I recall, it really wasn't too difficult to set up -- as long as you have a server with Apache and MySQL, one could probably be set up in a couple of hours. If you like, I can dig into this a bit.

- Andrew


On Mon, 16 May 2005, Steven Parker wrote:


Several of you have talked about having a Wiki for Manta. Originally I shot
down the idea as overkill, but since it keeps getting mentioned I am willing
to give it a shot if someone wants to set it up. Does anyone know what Wiki
is worth using? Does anyone care about this enough to make one work? They
don't look simple to stand up...

Steve







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