Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Feb 2

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Nat Friedman wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 11:28 -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
>  
>
> >    - Getting Road map in Wiki
> >    : Luis seems to be making progress.  The old roadmap is on the wiki and
> >      needs to be updated.
> >    
>
> Having spent some time evaluating Wikis the last two weeks, I have to
> say GNOME is running perhaps the worst possible Wiki software on
> live.gnome.org.  I would recommend that if the group ever looks at
> moving to a new piece of software, Twiki and MediaWiki be considered.
> Twiki has an awesome file-attachment feature and both are just superior
> in most ways to MoinMoin.
>  
In what ways does Twiki's file attachment feature compare with Moin's 
file attachment feature?  There is an "attach file" link at the bottom 
of every page you can edit on live.gnome.org.  Information on 
referencing the attachments is available here:
   http://live.gnome.org/HelpOnActions_2fAttachFile

It sounds like some of the features people think are missing from Moin 
actually exist, but are only available via the little icons in the top 
right hand corner, which don't really stand out if you don't know what 
they are for.

As for Twiki, it is worth noting that this is the software that was 
exploited to break into freedesktop.org.  The particular bug had been 
found before the break-in but it was only being publicised to people who 
had joined their "twiki administrators" list (no new release was made).  
So if you do want to run Twiki, make sure you join their mailing list :)

James.