[Savannah-hackers] Re: Collaboration software (Wiki, Faq-o-Matic, etc)

[Mathieu Roy]

Loic Dachary <address@hidden> said:

> Mathieu Roy writes:
>  > Loic Dachary <address@hidden> said:
>  > 
>  > X> Hugo Gayosso writes:
>  > >  > I personally have installed/configured and used Faq-o-Matic and I am
>  > >  > very pleased with it (currently being used at work).
>  > > 
>  > >  On fsffrance.org I wrote and installed a minimal wiki two days
>  > > ago based on Savannah / XSLT / CVS / ViewCVS. The script is at
>  > > 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/wwwfr/wiki.cgi?cvsroot=www.gnu.org
>  > > 
>  > >  I acknowledge the value of all wiki software available
>  > > (phpwiki, twiki, zwiki, tinywiki ...) but none of them was minimal
>  > > enough to fit the current GNU web conventions and *all* are a
>  > > nightmare to maintain.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Loic, how about load average?
> 
>       Note that the wiki is not running on Savannah. It is running
> on the fsffrance.org host (snail.gnu.org). However, in order to
> control the load average I assumed that concurrency was forbiden. When
> the script starts it sets a lockfile(1) and releases it when it is
> done. Given the fact that wiki based modifications are very unlikely to
> occur at the same time, it is a very minor inconvenience. It has the
> advantage of preventing accidental or malicious CGI flood that could
> result in a DOS. On fsffrance the script does not use mod_perl, which
> could significantly reduce the launch phase. However, the CVS operations
> latency is much greater than the delay of bootstraping the script and I
> don't feel it's an issue.
> 
>       Does this answer your question ?

It does.
I'll think about that when working on the scripts. 


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Mathieu Roy
 
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