Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Wiki (was: Re: First impressions)

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On 21/04/2008, Arnout Engelen <ros...@bz...> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:52:37AM -0400, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
>  > On Monday 21 April 2008, Vladimir Savic wrote:
>  > > We have wiki now.
>  >
>  > Arguments for a wiki usually involve the idea that other people can edit and
>  > add to it. In practice, the only way anybody can write to our wiki is if we
>  > add them as members of this project first.
>  > So I don't really see our existing wiki as a good solution to the "we need a
>  > wiki" problem.
>
>  Agreed entirely.

Me too -- and I dislike the SourceForge wiki anyway.  I don't much
mind the underlying wiki implementation, it's just the slowness of the
SourceForge server and advertising/branding stuff, and the lack of a
persistent login any more, that get to me.

I'm not especially keen to run a wiki on rosegardenmusic.com, because
managing things like registration and spam are painful (even worse
than for forums), though if someone really keen wants to manage it
then we might consider it.  I would probably prefer to see a
Rosegarden users' wiki as a section in a general Linux music
applications wiki elsewhere, especially if that wiki is already fairly
active (which rules out most of the existing Linux audio ones).

>  There's a new web forum that recently started,
>  http://linuxmusicians.com

Ah, that domain name takes me back.  I used to co-run
linuxmusician.com with Richard Bown.  We started out a bit peeved by
the audio-centricity of most of the Linux resources, and wanted a
music-rather-than-audio site.  It was originally supposed to be a
magazine site with actual writing (two interviews I worked on are
archived at http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/linux-musician/barnes.html
and http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/linux-musician/lilypond.html)
but quickly grew stale and collapsed into a badly-maintained forum
with piles of spam before eventually disappearing.

This new one looks much more like it, and quite active so far as well.
 Good stuff.


Chris