Re: Techdocs v2

Dave, Robert:

> IIRC that is the wiki site that Justin started but later abandoned due
> to software issues and then "retirement", so no one is working on that
> v2.

V2 was based on Zope/Plone, which we discovered to have abysmal performance on
the postgresql.org BSD VM.   Certainly it wouldn't be able to sustain the
thousands of people a day that buzz through Techdocs (or used to, anyway).

>Josh was leading some folks on a bricolage version of the site but
> I believe that sputtered out due to lack of time to actually get
> everything working under bric.

Yeah.  The holdup is the templating, which requires a knowledge of Mason.
Unforntunately, I've been unable to locate anyone who knows Mason and has any
free time at all.

> I have been investigating some wikis myself for a new version of
> techdocs, and I think I could settle on twiki, or at least if Marc wants
> to install it (it should be in ports) I'd be willing to put some content
> up.

A wiki would be fine in general.  I like what we have up for "guides".

One request, though:  I'd like it to be possible to flag some pages as
"modifiable only by owner".   The issue is that sometimes I will want to put
content on Techdocs that has special copyright restrictions (such as magazine
article reprints).   This would mean preventing most users from modifying
that page.   I know that others have similar content up.

That's the main issue that prevented me from being gung-ho about a wiki for
techdocs earlier.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco