Re: KOffice team is looking for webmasters

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 08:45:41 Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Monday 27. October 2008 23:12:56 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > Another question: There is wiki.koffice.org. The content which is there
> > looks like it could also be hosted at techbase. Is there a particular
> > reason for having a special wiki installation for it?
>
> wiki.koffice.org is for the koffice developers only.
> Techbase is for the technical audience of various parts of kde.

This of course includes KOffice developers. 

There might be good reasons to have a separate wiki. I don't want to talk you 
into using something that doesn't fit. But I would like to understand the 
reasons for having a separate system.

Maintaining separate systems is additional work and makes integration and 
consistency more difficult to achieve. So I would think it would be good, if 
especially the big projects are driving the common infrastructure. This would 
include the overall quality of our tools and would also help the smaller 
projects who don't have the resources to maintain own systems.

> You will see that we put tutorials etc on techbase, where it indeed
> belongs; but we use our own wiki for design documents, for usecases and
> TODO lists. I have seen that techbase uses the projects/ subdir for this as
> well, but that is much less ideal than using your own wiki :)

Why is using an area under http://techbase.kde.org/Projects worse than an own 
Wiki? It seems to work for more than 30 other projects which are listed on 
that page. Techbase also provides useful features which the koffice wiki 
doesn't seem to have like the OpenID login.

Is there specific functionality you are missing on techbase or what are the 
concrete reasons why you think techbase is worse than an own wiki?

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Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>