Re: projects.gnome.org versus live.gnome.org

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Joanie,

On 11/24/2011 06:18 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Periodically I wonder about projects.gnome.org versus live.gnome.org:
> Some modules and groups use one, some use the other, others use both. As
> I'm currently in the process of cleaning up the Orca wiki (and recently
> did the same for the Accessibility Team wiki), I figured I'd wonder
> aloud this time: Are there any plans, expectations, etc. regarding one
> versus the other?

projects.g.o is a set of web-pages where you control everything that 
gets published - html, css, javascript, etc. It gives more flexibility, 
if you want to do some layout that's hard in the GNOME wiki. The wiki is 
an easy lo-fi way for a project to have a web presence, but because 
anyone can change pages, it's sometimes harder to maintain (you might 
want to look at MoinMoin ACLs as a way to limit who can change your 
project's wiki page).

A projects page is stored in Git, and deployed directly on commit with a 
post-commit hook. So editors need access to Git, and need to be 
comfortable editing web pages. The wiki lowers the barrier to editing 
the web page, but, well, it's a wiki...

Horses for courses...

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
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