[cdwg] New Wiki for OpenSFS

[Nathan Rutman]

I'd actually prefer that as well -  I didn't realize it was free for open source.

On Nov 2, 2012, at 6:33 PM, "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger at intel.com> wrote:

> The Whamcloud wiki is backed by Confluence.  AFAIK, this is also integrated with Jira in some manner, though I don't know all of the details. 
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> 
> On 2012-11-02, at 19:14, Justin Miller <jupmille at iu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Confluence wiki is definitely worth considering.
>> 
>> http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/overview/team-collaboration-software
>> 
>> Atlassian provides licenses to their stable of products for open source
>> projects, I'd wager OpenSFS would qualify for that.
>> 
>> http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/open-source-license-request
>> 
>> - Justin
>> 
>> On 11/2/12 1:52 PM, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
>>> Ok.  I too would be in favor of a switch to MediaWiki.  We had it set up
>>> before, and in fact wiki.opensfs.org still goes to an un-configured
>>> MediaWiki instance.
>>> 
>>> I am inclined to pursue getting the MediaWiki instance upgraded and
>>> configured the way we want.
>>> 
>>> The only complaint that I am aware of for MediaWiki is that folks were
>>> unable to upload files.  But of course MediaWiki DOES support that, it
>>> is just (according to the FAQ) disabled by default.  So I'll look into
>>> where it is hosted, what controls we have, who current has the
>>> passwords, etc.
>>> 
>>> If anyone has any other requirements or suggestions for a better wiki
>>> engine, please speak up promptly.
>>> 
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> On 11/02/2012 07:23 AM, Nathan Rutman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Christopher J. Morrone
>>>> <morrone2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Could you please elaborate?  Our you referring to content on the
>>>>> wiki, or the actual wiki software?
>>>>> 
>>>>> If it is the latter, what are the problems?  You guys at Xyratex are
>>>>> pretty much the only people that I know of using the foswiki thing
>>>>> that was set up.  Are you having problems with it?  What are the
>>>>> problems?
>>>> The actual wiki software.  The half-gui interface, the unusual
>>>> formatting delimiters.  No permissions to do anything. The
>>>> difficulties adding content are a barrier to improving this.
>>>> MediaWiki just seems easier.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 11/01/2012 10:06 AM, Nathan Rutman wrote:
>>>>>> My 2 cents: all I really care about is a working Wiki ASAP...
>>>>> 
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