[rkward-devel] new landing page

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi Meik,

On Thursday 25 October 2012, meik michalke wrote:
> ok, i've started with a new welcoming info:
>  o http://rkward.sourceforge.net
> 
> the download links are still missing, but it already looks much more
> inviting to me :-)

looks nice!

Meanwhile, I have started experimenting with migrating the Wiki into our 
project web space (see https://sourceforge.net/blog/hosted-apps-retirement for 
background info). It sort of works by now, although several issues still need 
to be resolved. You can test it at http://rkward.sf.net/wiki/ . Don't worry 
about getting the latest edits into the wiki. The database import is really 
the least of our problems. What worries me more is:

  - Handling user permissions. SF promised to provide OpenID integration of 
some sorts, eventually, but months after the announcement, it's still not 
there. And will it suit our needs, when it is? BTW, if you manage to get the 
wiki to mail you a password reset token, you should be able to log in and 
edit. This didn't work for me, so far, and the wiki will refuse to send more 
than one password reminder per account per 24 hours.
  - Administration. Once everything is set up, we'll have to make sure it 
keeps working. This includes updating to fix security holes, *and* potentially 
coping with changing configuration details of the SF project web service.
  - Performance. This is my main concern, really. Much of the time the wiki 
works ok, but often enough it becomes extremely slow. I'm not sure, whether / 
to what degree this can be mitigated by caching, but I fear that this will 
remain a problem, and supporting this is unlikely to be a top priority for 
SF.net.

So, I think we should start considering alternative solutions. One would be to 
use an external wiki provider (such as wikia.com), another would be to move to 
SF.net's new integrated wiki (you can create your own wiki to experiment with 
on your SF user profile page). In both cases, we could consider keeping the 
landing page at it's current address, using static html, or light scripting, 
and moving "only" everything else to a new wiki.

Thoughts / ideas?

Regards
Thomas
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