On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:14:02PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>...
> 1) Revision Control for Wikis
>
> Wikis are the future of blogging and many other internet
> mediated communications technologies. Revision control,
> pioneered by Twiki (I think) is commonly (and plausibly)
> believed to be an important feature.
>
> SVN repository performance characteristics are ideally
> suited for Wikis, because Wiki interaction typically
> consists of {simple selected files commit} and because we
> can safely expect to see increasingly huge and active wikis
> (hurray for {scalable operation}). {web integration} and
> {individual file query} are central to what Wikis do. The
> weaknesses of the svn client interface are immaterial to
> svn's application to wikis, because they are surely good
> enough as-is to be used as a back-end to wiki-apps.
Ha!
On this point, I very much agree. In fact, I agree so much, that I even went
and coded this some time ago:
http://subwiki.tigris.org/
http://svn.webdav.org/repos/projects/subwiki/trunk/
http://test.webdav.org/wiki/Welcome
I wouldn't even call it alpha code right now. You can't add a page except by
checking out the pages, doing 'svn add', and committing it back. After I get
unburied from some other work, I'll be doing that. And now that Mike got
ViewSVN support going, I'll be hooking that in, too. And then... :-)
Cheers,
-g
--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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Received on Sat Oct 12 04:18:14 2002