Re: Web site update

From: Jean T. Anderson (jt..ristowhill.com)
Date: Sun Jul 16 2006 - 15:05:02 EDT

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    Andrus Adamchik wrote:
    >
    > On Jul 16, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
    >
    >> looks good -- and I updated the cayenne status.
    >
    > Great, thanks!
    >
    >> Regarding the Confluence migration, I understand from infrastructure@
    >> that Confluence isn't supposed to be used as a general purpose wiki. It
    >> was installed for committers to maintain the static, published, web
    >> site.
    >
    > Actually, the only other project using Confluence, Geronimo, uses it as
    > a main Wiki (at least the "Wiki" link from the main G. site points to
    > Confluence). So I hope this is not so.
    >
    > I haven't seen any mention that Confluence at Apache wasn't intended to
    > be a general purpose Wiki, but rather that it doesn't scale very well.
    > And the static site plugin (not sure what it is called exactly) was
    > supposed to address this issue.

    we should get that clarified sooner rather than later. Are you
    subscribed to infrastructur..?

    >> Would Cayenne also like a MoinMoin wiki for general purpose use?
    >
    >
    > We had a discussion on that some time back and there was a desire to
    > preserve Confluence as a Wiki, the main reason being that we are using
    > it as a documentation engine (relying on its export feature), but also
    > because it more feature-rich in general, and we have lots of Confluence
    > content already.

    MoinMoin serves the need of a general Wiki that anyone can update. But
    there's no requirement to have such a Wiki and many projects don't.

     -jean



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