On 3/12/06, Jeff Kinz jkinz@kinz.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:09:07PM +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote:
What I'd like to see in Centosplus is a rpm of Xen, that is stable and pre-tested with Centos and seamlessly changes the Centos Server/Workstation.
Yes, this would be really nice.
A Centos-Enterprise oriented wiki is a great idea. We need a place to host it. Does Centos.org have the resources to add this to their site? (= extra storage, Bandwidth, time to install and administer or willingness to let others on their server to do same?)
Its a lot too ask, but if Centos.org is willing, then great.
Donovan, what do you think?
Or are there any other community members who could host a wiki?
It doesn't have to be a wiki per se. Any mechanism that allows contributors to add pages to a web site (even via email) would be a useful tool. Static html is fine (and may even be best.)
In the enterprise, there's always a repungence to trying something untested or rather on your own, especially like less experienced users, especially those with shoe-string budget. The reassurance of walking on a well-trodden path with road-signs given to you, is a great plus in deciding to do something with Centos.
............. milage may vary! I think Centos community leaders should look a little in this issue & debate and then maybe implement something around these lines. Enablement of Enterprise Applications around the stable Centos Core shuld be the path ahead.
I would guess the Centos leaders already have full plates just keeping the Centos distribution going. Perhaps we community members need to step up to the plate to create this.
I can volunteer some time to install and administer a wiki. Mediawiki is a very powerful wiki system. Its the one Wikipedia uses but its slow and very resource intensive. If we have to run a wiki we should run one that is lighter.
Just my two rupees worth ;-) I belong to India, so can't give in US cents ;-)
I'll take it! 2 INR for $0.02 USD is a great exchange rate. :-)
;-)) Yeh...u'll get a lot for that dollar! Thanks Jeff
BTW, Centos already has forums at http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/index.php however, its QA oriented normal Wiki, with high noise ratio and is not much different from a mailing list except in its presentation.
What I envisage is having a section on How-to, further subsections like RDBMS, ODBMS, CMS, Groupware, Helpdesk, Email, Backup, somehow the "first post moderated" by someone from a group of people very experienced in CentOS (purpose each How-to allowed to be posted as a thread to be a complete how-to on deploying maintaining one RDBMS, if RDBMS section & so on, with detailed instructions & links for further research).
Just imagine, I am looking for a CMS, I visit the forum & find neatly laid in 5 threads, 5 different CMS under the CMS Howto Section, a howto, followup comments, problem areas, scripts, experiences & so on.
Incomplete Articles not to be allowed by moderator. Allowed articles may/may not have comments added in a follow-up, by the moderator team, maybe showing some enhancements that can be done.
Rest of posts to the thread can be by the community, people who have tried following howto, success reports, comments, QA and mabe even scripts built using the How-to. These need not be moderated.
A small script may be written which may create an index page of all howtos from the subject lines or something.
With regards. Sanjay.