On Fri February 27 2009, Ed W wrote: > > >>>> It is our 'DreamHost PS' service that is based on Linux-Vserver... > >>>> http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-vps.html > >>>> > >>>> > > > > That would certainly solve the problem of a repository going off-line > > when someone is depending on it. ;) > > > > Not mentioned by either of us - but for the members not familiar with > > the Dreamhost product - they have 'one click' installs for everything > > mentioned in the "wish list" items of this thread. > > > > Cool - Herbert - lets take the dreamhost guys up on this. A premium bit > of hosting and interest from the owners seems like a good deal! > > > That would make any additions to community support "minimum effort". > > > > Too bad I don't know the system currently in use, I can't help with that. > > > > You keep saying this in a way like it's hard to figure out how to use > mediawiki? Given that the spec of the product is to be accessible to > tom dick and harry to build the worlds largest free bit of content, > built by normal users with few technical skills, then I hardly see that > this is likely to be a real barrier to entry to a man of your talents? > > As an aside I have a small media wiki install for one of my projects. I > can hardly claim to be an expert in administering it, but the install > process was all of 10 mins and figuring out the main stuff and putting > in a few plugins was largely straightforward. > > Would it be possible to consider a hybrid approach which involves > changing as little as possible and trying to use maximum amounts of > contributed time and resources to advancing the actual content? Which > is to say do you think you could supply a tool which does more the > "first impressions" content and might be separate from the current > documentation site? > > I don't want to sound negative, but if my assertion is true then it > might take you only a few hours to figure out mediawiki to a pretty > decent depth, and possibly days/weeks of effort to port the existing > site to another engine? Perhaps it's worth considering whether a split > site or just some time on the media wiki docs is a good start? > (Installation is basically a la most php apps. If you have a mysql > installation hanging around then you will be up and running with a demo > site in 10 mins. Happy to help out if you have questions?) > Age and early Alzheimer's places limits on what "new" things I can learn. I still do fairly well with the things I already learned years ago. Mike > Ed W > > >