Hello Dashamir, This is an interesting question, though, for potential users of DocBook Wiki. This is because it would be considerably easier to get DocBook Wiki deployed in a live project if it could piggy-back on a well-known Wiki.
If I get the time, I might try to make an informal assessment of how much effort it might take to perform such an integration. But I appreciate that you are probably right in saying that it would be difficult. Regards, Fintan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dashamir Hoxha Sent: 11 March 2008 12:35 To: Helping the users of DocBookWiki to install and use it. Subject: Re: [doc-book-users] DocBook Wiki as Confluence plug-in? Hi Fintan, Thanks for the suggestion. However, I am not worried about "dominating the market" or becoming famous. As long as it works for me, and as long as the others who use it are satisfied, I don't worry about fixing or improving it. So, if you wish, you can try to make such a package, but I think that it should be very difficult and the chances that you succeed are very low. Even if I have tried it myself, the chances that I would succeed would be low. However I don't have time to try it, because I am already trying something else with it. Regards, Dashamir Bolton, Fintan wrote: > Hello Dashamir, > > I wonder if you have ever considered re-packaging DocBook Wiki as a > plug-in to one of the mainstream Wikis, such as Confluence or Moin-Moin? > > It is a peculiar paradox that, although DocBook Wiki has much better > DocBook support than any other Wiki out there, it has failed to gain > much traction in the Wiki space. I suspect the reason for this is that > there is currently a rather high threshold to getting a new Wiki flavour > accepted. For example, on a typical open source project, you would have > very little prospect of persuading an open source community to drop > Moin-Moin or Confluence in favour of a little-known product like DocBook > Wiki. Even persuading the community to adopt it as an 'extra' Wiki would > probably be an uphill battle. > > In marketing terms, therefore, it would be much easier to get DocBook > Wiki accepted if it came in the form of a Confluence or Moin-Moin > plug-in. Adding plug-ins to Wikis is a routine procedure that would be > unlikely to arouse much controversy in an open source community. > > Of course, I am glossing over the technical difficulties here, which > might be considerable. But the integration would not have to be perfect. > The main goal would be to make DocBook Wiki look similar enough to the > host Wiki, so that it can gain acceptance. On a technical level, > probably the main priorities would be to integrate user administration > with the host Wiki and to change the appearance of the pages to look > more like the host Wiki. > > Regards, > Fintan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ---------------------------- > IONA Technologies GmbH (registriert in Deutschland, AG Darmstadt) > Registernummer: HRB 7939 > Geschäftsadresse: Im Leuschnerpark 4, D- 64347 Griesheim, Deutschland > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Doc-book-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/doc-book-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Doc-book-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/doc-book-users ---------------------------- IONA Technologies GmbH (registriert in Deutschland, AG Darmstadt) Registernummer: HRB 7939 Geschäftsadresse: Im Leuschnerpark 4, D- 64347 Griesheim, Deutschland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Doc-book-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/doc-book-users
