[Bioperl-l] Re: bioperl FAQ

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Peter,

I agree with Chris. We are better off continuing with CVS based developments 
for the time being. I do appreciate your offer to help, though.

Thanks,

   -Heikki

chris dagdigian wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter etc.
> 
> As much as I like Wiki it seems that having most of our documentation 
> (and FAQ) information be included  as static text files in our 
> distribution is the better way to go given our past history.
> 
> We have a far better track record of our developers working on the 
> CVS-resident codebase than doing anything with the website. We will 
> probably get much more effort and attention put into the docs and the 
> FAQs if our developers were able to add/edit/etc files and 'cvs commit' 
> them back into the project repository. If we require people to do 
> something on the web then the number of people who contribute will drop 
> sharply.
> 
> Some sort of XML-based FAQ that can easily be transformed into 
> HTML/text/PDF/etc. etc. seems like the appoach that will work best for 
> bioperl people.
> 
> On a side note I'm working on the next generation website stuff and if 
> we go ahead with plans to build on top of Zope and CMF then we can 
> easily Wiki-enable the websites as there are several good quality wiki 
> implementations that have been done under the Zope/CMF portal framework.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> 
> peter.masiar@yale.edu wrote:
> 
>> Quoting bioperl-l-request@bioperl.org:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> From: Heikki Lehvaslaiho <heikki@ebi.ac.uk>
>>>
>>> This for Peter Masiar for suggesting the Twiki. There are quite a lot of
>>> us
>>> who hae used wiki and I think it would be grat if we had more people
>>> writing
>>> docs and web pages.
>>> As fas as I can see neither twiki or FAQ-O-Matic can generate a plain
>>> text
>>> version to be included into distribution.
>>>
>>>     -heikki
>>>   
>>
>>
>> TWiki is little different from other wikis I researched.
>> Because generating HTML is used rather often, it has feature to do that:
>>
>> Following page describes how TWiki can generate static HTML pages from 
>> all pages in wiki folder:
>> http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/GenHTMLAddon
>>
>> GenHTML script was developed by Crawford Currie for Motorola.
>> I'll find out if it works and let you know in couple of days.
>> Sorry, way to busy right now. :-(
>>
>> If generating static HTML from TWiki pages works, are you interested?
>> Or you still prefer manual edit?
>>
>> Peter Masiar, peter.masiar@yale.edu
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