[Ekiga-list] need documentation of how to get Ekiga working with other programs

[Damien Sandras]

Hi Yannick,

I can open it to everyone again. What do people think?

It is ok if we backup...

Le mardi 31 octobre 2006 à 09:51 +0100, yannick a écrit :
> Hi !
> 
> Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 à 10:34 -0800, David M. Kaplan a écrit :
> > Hi Yannick,
> > 
> > Thanks for explaining why text and video have problems.  Your
> > explanations make sense.
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> > 
> > As for the wiki, perhaps it would be best to host it on another site
> > that would allow community involvement on editing?  There are free wiki
> > services out there, but we could also try talking to gnome, ubuntu and
> > redhat to see if they would host it.  I think this would really make
> > generating documentation much easier and allow developers to spend more
> > time on developing.  I personally would contribute to a wiki, but it is
> > really hard to email wiki changes unless they constitute entire new
> > pages.
> 
> I agree with you; this would be much easier to allow people directly
> edit the wiki, but as i told you the wiki was like this before and was
> hacked, which really was annoying to the person in charge of it (Damien
> Sandras) as he has *lots* of other things to do (coding, administrating
> ekiga.net, etc.). Since then, editing the wiki has been restricted to a
> circle of few trusted people using passwords. See below... IMHO, having
> it hosted elsewhere, isn't really a solution as the problem is *who*
> will be in charge of it. Who will dedicated his time to this task
> assuming the person is a wiki master who can deal with
> "sabotage"/hacks ? I'm not that kind of people... In the other hand, the
> Ekiga team see now the wiki system as a very good way to document Ekiga.
> It seems, we will use it more and more...
> 
> > 
> > Another approach would be to allow editing from a very controlled group
> > of people - there is a way to have mediawiki email passwords just to
> > those you want (i.e., we could make people request accounts via email
> > and only after they are well known) and you can set up the wiki so that
> > it only operates over SSL for password protection.  Just a thought....
> > 
> 
> ...this is mostly the way it works. Damien Sandras, as he is the wiki
> administrator, granted me access to the wiki giving me a password and i
> started working on it.
> 
> If you want to directly edit the wiki, ask Damien. I can't give you
> access to it.
> 
> Perhaps, we should open a new page in the wiki providing infos how to
> grant access to edit the wiki for people willing to help on it...
> 
> Regards,
> Yannick
> 
> 
> > Cheers,
> > David
> > 
> > 
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