Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Wiki usefulness

[Geert Stappers]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:50:52PM -0800, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> On Friday 19 December 2003 11:16 am, address@hidden 
> wrote:
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> > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:28:40 -0600
> > From: Michael Grubb <address@hidden>
> > Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] Wiki usefulness
> > To: address@hidden
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> > To All,
> >
> > It seems as though since I quit hosting the wiki it has been more or
> > less broken.  I can not contact Talli Somekh to get these issues
> > resolved. Is the wiki still a useful tool?  If so I think that we need
> > to find a new maintainer that won't just fall of the face of the
> > planet.
> 
> What requirements do you need to host the site?  What kind of time 
> commitments are required by the site maintainer?  I may be able to 
> assist in this, as I have my own commercial site located at 
> http://www.falvotech.com .
> 

 From an other posting on this mailinglist.
| 
|>What is needed for hosting the gnuarch.org wiki?
|>Please guess/estimate
|>  * bandwith
|>  * serverload
|>  * diskspace
|> From http://twiki.org/ I did read:
|>  How does it work?
|>  Twiki is cgi-bin script written in perl. It reads a text file,
|>  hyperlinks it and converts it to HTML on the fly.
|>
|>What is needed for maintiance?
|<SNIP>
| 
|* Bandwidth - This is a very subjective metric, which depends greatly on
|the community's use
|* serverload - I judge this to be very small.  It wasn't even noticeable on
|my server
|* diskspace - Again this grows with content, but in general I think
|everything was under 2 Mb
| 
|What is needed for maintenance?   Well, there's not a lot to it.
|The most frequent task is resetting passwords which regrettably is a manual
|process.
|The next biggest task is adding new webs(though this shouldn't happen too
|often).
|Other than that and the occasional house keeping it maintains itself.
|(Oh, whoever takes it over, it would help if you had some skill with Perl,
|*nix, and RCS)
| 
 |  Micheal Grubb


Also another mailinglist posting:

|hey,
|
|i'm still around, reading the digests.
|
|unfortunately, Twiki pretty much sucks. the sysadmin that supports it
|has been happy to fix it to get up and running, but it's really not
|much of a code base. if someone who understands it better would like to
|take it on, that's fine.
|
|talli


So we have information from the previous maintainer,
the current maintainer says "take it on"
and one who wants to pick it up.


To continue with my wishfull thinking:
Who is in charge of the gnuarch.org DNS?



Cheers, Geert Stappers

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