Re: wiki again

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Clemens Eisserer wrote:

> > suggested name: gcj-resources.sf.net
> >
> > The idea is simple:
> > Many not so obvious things as well as topics like migratinng from suns
> > jdk to gcj and so on could be described there.
> >
> > But I stress that: It only works if it is acceepted by at least some of
> > you. If you have strong objections to that, I rather save some time.
>
> I think thats a great idea!
>
> The site on fsf.org doesn't really help if you've a problem.
> The only place where you get really great help is this mailing list 
> (thanks a lot guys, you've helped me so many times - thanks!!!), but 
> many quetsions are asked all the time again and it seems that some of 
> the really great gcj-hackers are a little bit bothered about these 
> questions.



Ideally the "wiki" would be the "official" gcj website at 
gcc.gnu.org/java. The idea being that it we can replace/update the 
content there and keep it up to date much more easily. This might mean 
that edit access is restricted to GCJ developers and approved users, in 
order to keep things structured and relevant.

So, what we'd be doing is combining dynamic-updateable wiki content with 
a traditional "open source project documentation & download" style page. 
One site which I think does this sort of thing really well is 
hibernate.org. Their layout is pretty clean and the "recent changes" 
links are particularly useful. They use a platform called coWiki: 
http://www.develnet.org/ - however one thing that I don't like about 
this is that it seems to use numerical URLs for links - I'd prefer links 
to be readable. Also it requires PHP 5 - so any other suggestions welcome.

Of course, we still have to convince the gcc.gnu.org web people that we 
need this, but the first step towards doing so would be to put it 
together on a test server somewhere to serve as proof-of-concept. Any 
volunteers?

Regards

Bryce