On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:18:54AM -0500, David Nalley wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: >> > Joe, >> > >> > I added those in. IMHO, our wiki should just "export" content and then it >> > gets "styled" up and be put on cloudstack.org. >> > >> > Take a look at cxf landing page vs the wiki. Their landing page is >> > nothing more than dressed up wiki. >> > >> > Landing page: >> > http://cxf.apache.org/ >> > >> > wiki: >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/CXF/ >> > >> > This has a few benefits: >> > - Reduces the things we have to keep track of to a minimum. >> > - Familiar platform for people who want to write things targeted to the >> > end user/cloud operator. >> > - End user/cloud operator has a natural way to dig deeper. >> > >> > Our collaborations should happen on the mailing list but once a consensus >> > is achieved someone should write something on the wiki. This is similar >> > to how we're doing the FSes currently. >> > >> > David has gotten admin privilege to allow us to customize the html export >> > of our wiki. I haven't had any time to look at it though (partly because >> > I can only tinker with it through David since I have no such karma so it's >> > slow for me to get started.) >> > >> > --Alex >> >> >> So while the autoexport will export html to cwiki.a.o, it can not >> become the main website (e.g. cs.o or i.a.o/cloudstack) >> >> See: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/CWIKI/#Index-Canweusethemirroroftheautoexportsiteasourmainwebsite%253F >> >> (and while it says yes, what it really means is..not anymore) >> >> --David >> > > There's that moving target for ASF practices again... ;-) > > That's a shame, because I like Alex's proposal.
The other impetus against doing that is that it would require us to lock down wiki access to committers and folks with a CLA - and having done that before I can tell you it was a disaster from a participation stand point See https://cwiki.apache.org/CWIKI/#Index-Ifweusethewikitomaintainprojectdocumentation%252Carethereanyspecialconsiderations%253F and the question below it. --David
