[Opensim-dev] Some thought about OpenSimulator Wiki future

[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 06/08/11 03:51, BlueWall wrote:
> On 08/05/2011 05:31 AM, Melanie wrote:
>> It was decided to keep control of our own central repository and not
>> delegate that to a code warehouse like github. It is a decision I
>> stand by because I don't like or trust code warehouses.
>>
>> Melanie
>>
>
> +1
>
> A couple of issues are:
> "What if the company folds?", if you invest a lot of time and effort
> into a project and the infrastructure you depend on disappears of the
> face of the earth, how do you deal with that? How do you regroup the
> community and re-establish a central point for information and distribution?
>
> "What if another company buys the infrastructure, or the company just
> decides to make changes in policy?", Example: Recently, many gmail users
> added a Google+ profile to the accounts they have been using for years,
> only to get banned by Google for using a pseudonym for a name. So, being
> a user of an external service leaves one vulnerable to the future
> policies of the service and anyone using the service risks .
>
> Keeping 100% control of the infrastructure allows continuity for the
> community for the life of the project.

If this was an infrastructure provided by only one company then I would agree.

However, this is git, where it would be easy to switch hosting if GitHub folded or did policy changes.

>
>> On 05/08/2011 08:27, Jeroen van Veen wrote:
>>> How about moving opensim code to github and add something like Sphinx(but
>>> then for c#) as documentation, where both documentation from source-code and
>>> in wiki style can be mixed?
>>> Advantage would be that versioning on the documentation is more flexible,
>>> and most of the time the documentations software already provides a
>>> professional looking template. Besides, you won't
>>> need stuff like captcha's anymore. Just my two cents...
>>>
>
> The Allura project recently caught my eye. It is the system used by
> Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/p/allura/wiki/Allura%20Wiki/) and
> they have shared their code under the Apache License 2.0. If we were to
> make some drastic departure from what we do now into some integrated
> system, something like that make sense. We could retain our control of
> the infrastructure without having to develop all of it ourselves. We
> could also house all the 3rd party components under the same system. Not
> advocating any changes at this point. But, just window shopping.
>
>
> BlueWall
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