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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Wiki usefulness
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Geert Stappers |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Wiki usefulness |
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Fri, 9 Jan 2004 00:41:45 +0100 |
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:29:11PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> 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:
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:28:40 -0600
> > > From: Michael Grubb <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] Wiki usefulness
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> > >
> > > 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?
>
According whois information Talli Somekh is.
Samuel now you are back from christmas vacantion,
could you tell us when you are ready for hosting
the gnu arch wiki?
>
> Cheers, Geert Stappers
just looking for some one who can reset
my password for the wiki at http://gnuarch.org/bin/view/
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