Support Request #102343, was updated on Sat 08/09/2003 at 22:22 You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=102343&group_id=11
Category: Web Status: Open Priority: 5 Summary: Request wiki for (all?) projects By: bescoto Date: Sat 08/09/2003 at 22:22 Logged In: YES user_id=10932 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030801 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Hi, I think it would be a good idea if Savannah provided wiki services for its projects. If it does already, I would like to request them for my projects, rdiff-backup and duplicity. But it looks like it doesn't so I'll make a short pitch below. You are probably thinking that this is a frivolous feature. I believe, however, that it could be very important. Free software can be surprisingly successful by accumulating the small efforts of many individuals. A system like CVS does this for program code, and has become an indispensible part of modern development. CVS may be great for developers writing code, but is often too cumbersome for users. These users can often be very good at writing documentation (better than the developers in fact, who may know the code "too well") but be turned off by the complicated CVS method. Offering a wiki (or by default making project home pages wikis) could in principle do for free software documentation what public CVS did for free software code. In some cases documentation can be as important as code, so the possibilities here shouldn't be underestimated or brushed aside. There are many wiki's, one popular and capable one is phpwiki at http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ Finally, sourceforge already offers wiki's to its projects, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/sfwiki/ Thanks for any consideration. Regardless of what you decide, thanks very much for hosting my projects, you guys do a great job. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=102343&group_id=11 _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
