Subject: Re: [vserver] VServer Community; Was: Roadmap and Future ...
From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:26:25 -0600

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
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