[pylucene-dev] OSAF wiki offer

[Ofer Nave]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pylucene-dev-bounces at osafoundation.org 
> [mailto:pylucene-dev-bounces at osafoundation.org] On Behalf Of 
> Andi Vajda
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:39 PM
> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Jared Rhine wrote:
> > Hi!  I was pointed at the pylucene wiki thread recently.  I know 
> > there's not a consensus yet, but representing OSAF IT, I can offer 
> > with little hassle, a wiki area on the existing 
> wiki.osafoundation.org 
> > site.  The default configuration is "must be registered to 
> edit" and 
> > "confirm account creation via email" (no captcha).
> >
> > We track down spammers when we see them, and there's built-in 
> > anti-spam code that seems to be working quite well these days.  But 
> > Andi is right that wiki's do tend to work better if there's one or 
> > more people who take on maintenance duties by default.  You 
> can get an 
> > email or RSS notice of all changes, so it can at least be 
> pretty easy to stay informed of changes.
> >
> > While we could create another wiki instance, there's admin benefits 
> > for us to only have the one instance.  The look-and-feel for a new 
> > area (left nav, colors, etc) can be customized through the wiki 
> > itself; hopefully that's a nice balance for the pylucene community.
> >
> > I'm happy to answer questions or take on the setup if the community 
> > decides to proceed.  Thanks!
> 
> Thank you for the offer, Jared.
> 
> I do want Walter Wiki, the wiki gardener, to step forward 
> first and commit to maintaining this PyLucene wiki for the 
> foreseeable future for this to happen.
> 
> If no one volunteers, we'd be wasting your time.

A PyLucene wiki is too important to not let happen.

I'll volunteer to cover April, if you're willing to execute on a limited
commitment.  After that, either (a) someone else will step forward, (b) I'll
volunteer to continue, (c) enough of a core community will have developed to
make an official gardner unneccessary, or (d) we go home and are no worse
off than now.

-ofer