On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Yes, that’s a good proposal. Then all available Unix tools can be used > to sort, find duplicates and make some order. Maybe it could be a dif‐ > ferent git repository to avoid overlapping merges. There could be still > discussions on hackers@ about pastes. A web interface could satisfy > the hipsters fraction and Google. > By having a separate repository it could run without moderation. Only > a file limit restriction would be needed. If things go wrong, remove the > repository. By still sending changes to hackers@ we have some control > over abuse. >
A separate git repository will do. I do not have the power to open it and hook it up to the mailing list. Volunteers? > The problem here is a bit the Wikipedia problem: I would like to setup > my own Wikipedia mirror but PHP and some ugly SQL backend are keeping me > away from it. There is no sane data export available but SQL dumps. If > Wikipedia would be some public git repository it would be easier to have > overlays by using something like the unionfs and running the common wiki > web interface on top of this new directory. That seems easier than hav‐ > ing some SQL database doing an inefficient sync every month. And it > doesn’t add the PHP dependency. This problem adheres to the web and its > cruft we need to solve. > Please move your outline of a antioraclepedia (in the tradition of antiword) converter to a different thread if you have serious intentions to discuss it further. cheers! mar77i
