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Re: New website organization (html vs. wiki, and then some)

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:18:58 -0800

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:06 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>
>> NOTE:  I'm making two assumptions here:  (1) that we would never consider
>> using a Wiki that didn't send page change notifications to our commits@ list
>> (or maybe a dedicated wiki@), and (2) that any wiki service that the ASF
>> provided would be covered by their backup mechanisms.
>>
>> What say you?
>
> I'd like to add one more thing here.
>
> Presumably a primary goal in moving some content to a wiki is to be
> able to widen the net of who can edit the pages.  So we also need to
> know how those controls work at ASF.  While we may get tired of
> applying and committing patches to some of the pages, it is a heck of
> a lot better than a Wiki if these same users cannot just add the
> content themselves.

Re-reading, I see you touched on this a bit. I think you were
implying we would open it up to anyone with an account to edit,
provided there was an email list for the changes. I agree if that is
where you were going.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2009-12-03 22:19:34 CET

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