Re: [Openpoplog-developers] local poplog sites

[Stephen L. <st...@wa...>]

Hi Jonathan,

>Have a look: http://www.openpoplog.org.uk
>
>If you think this is a really bad idea (or even a slightly
>bad idea) or have other suggestions about it, say so!

I agree that it has the potential to be a very good idea.  I think for best effect it needs to be a proper collaborative site.  For example, a Wiki with strong user/group access controls, so that users could create their own areas and not have them disrupted by others unless they say so.

Unfortunately, the crude access controls in the MediaWiki makes it unsuitable.  I'm not aware of any Wiki which fits, although there are so many I can hardly pretend to know more than a handful of the main ones.

My growing feeling is that we (me?) should probably write a Wiki in Pop-11.  The hard bits would be writing the persistence layer and the version comparison.  The benefits would be (1) flexibility in meeting unusual requirements, (2) Pop-11 "code-sense", (3) Ved integration, (4) spinoff libraries.  Wikis are not regarded as especially challenging to implement so this isn't something to be too scared of.

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Steve