[axxs-sysadmin] donations update and lunchtime rant

[Spider]

I find both twiki and mediawiki a pain to edit.
Confluence has had a good wrap though it's comercial...
Other thing is for "personal/non-profit" use you can only have a single 
user!


Cioa Spider

p.s. Sorry I'm very time poor right now!!



On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Dave Fregon wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 16:21 +1100, aketus wrote:
> > I have time tonight to see if I can set up Trac or something like that  
> > following approval (although that deadline might be a little too short  
> > for CompColl) on Xchange if you're lacking the time.
> 
> Trac is probably overkill tho I love it, and also not as simple as first
> appears setting up, you need to have subversion repositories, mod_python
> and custom virtual host containers, .htaccess etc. and an eye on the
> security coming from implementing that too.
> 
> I'm sure you could do it, just it's probably overkill as it's more
> focussed around code and projects docs on code, than what we are after I
> think.
> 
> I reckon mediawiki, which is installed on xchange, but not configured, I
> only had a quick look at how to configure and it was a little confusing
> what the methodology is in SuSe for sharing the codebase and bringing up
> a mediawiki 'instance' without hacking the new install point all over
> the place. time got the better of me, and it's still not done :\
> 
> I've cc'd the others in CompColl as this crosses 2 borders, compcoll
> want a mediawiki (yes yes Chris I am slow on that;), and so do we :) I'm
> just not sure about or familiar with how the SuSe setups best practice
> for rolling out wiki sites off the central code on the server is ..
> someone may be able to fill me in? is it meant to install and be run
> from the install location? how would you do multiple wikis then?
> 
> a little confused over the approach for multi-site code with suse,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 

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