[OpenAFS] Improving collaboration

Bart Banter bartbanter@hotmail.com
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:04:58 -0600


I'm behind a firewall that prevents AFS.
--Guy Streeter
Red Hat


>From: cg@cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot)
>Reply-To: cg@cdegroot.com
>To: openafs-info@openafs.org
>Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Improving collaboration
>Date: 9 Jan 2002 21:47:06 +0100
>
>Ted Anderson <ota@transarc.com> said:
> >I wonder if it wouldn't be useful to use one of the open collaborative
> >tools available on the network for maintaining some of OpenAFS's
> >documents.  The CVS tree is appropriate for managing the source tree,
> >but it seems unnecessarily heavy-weight for developing and maintaining
> >information like the Project list[1], various HOWTOs (such as the
> >oft-requested one on using Kerberos 5) and the FAQ.  I would suggest
> >something like Wiki[2], which allows anyone to edit documents, would be
> >a decent choice.  Another possibility is Faq-O-Matic[3].  Both of these
> >could be run as CGI applications along with CVS at www.openafs.org.
> >There are certainly other tools that could be used for this purpose; I'm
> >not an expert on what's available.
> >
>A Wiki is always useful (my credo as a project manager: "here's a Wiki and 
>a
>mailing list - use it for 6 months, if you still want more after that, 
>yell").
>
>However, wouldn't it be an idea to use AFS for this? I'd say that most 
>people
>here have AFS installed, so you could just put a designated part of the
>website in AFS, with public (wiki-like) parts, and maybe some parts that 
>have
>ACL's for certain project teams, and 'canonical official' parts that are 
>just
>writable by OpenAFS folk. Eat your own dogfood...
>
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