Wiki or tasks?

[Frederic Lehobey <Frederic@Lehobey.net>]

Hi,

Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> (2008-05-09 08:44:16) :

> I think starting with a Wiki is the wrong approach because it becomes
> outdated very quickly.  We made the experience in the Debian Med team
> where at first we listed our relevant packages on static pages which
> turned out to be unmaintainable.  Somebody started a competing Wiki and
> it turned out that both "competing" techniques were featuring different
> content (something was missing on any page) and so both techniques
> failed to stay up to date with the evolution of the Debian pool.
> 
> The final solution we really found is an automatik update of web pages
> (twice a day).  The web pages for the Debian Med team are controlled
> by so called tasks files that contain all software (not only existing
> Debian packages) that is known to us and might be interesting for the
> project.  I it happens that some developer builds a package for Debian
> and it hits the Debian pool the automatic script will detect this change
> and thus the resulting web page becomes up to date just in time.  IMHO
> there is no other chance to track down the changes.  You can have a
> look on this at
> 
>     http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/

  Fully supported (with the difference that there were no competing
static pages in the Debian Science case).  :-) I think many of the
DebianScience wiki pages should as much as possible replaced by the
Sentinel pages or other (semi-)automatically generated content.

> I'm constantly busy to enhance the script and some very interesting
> features (like translations using DDTP stuff) are on my todo list.
> The script works as well for Debian Edu, Debian Science and Debian GIS -
> I just pointed in the past to the links and I can repeat if needed,
> but currently there is no cronjob installed.  (If there is a volunteer
> to install the cron job - just go for it!  I for myself would put
> some more effort in the script itself before installing a general cron
> job - but if anybody likes the current state - there is nothing against
> it.)

  :-)   Can we put cronjobs in Alioth accounts?

Best regards,
Fréderic