Re: [HTCondor-devel] Considering moving design docs to Google Drive

[Tim St Clair <tstclair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 to willb..

I have many quips, but I'll save them for a FW conversation. 

-Tim
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Will Benton" <willb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Igor Sfiligoi" <sfiligoi@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: htcondor-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 11:42:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [HTCondor-devel] Considering moving design docs to Google Drive
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Igor Sfiligoi" <sfiligoi@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: htcondor-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 10:45:44 AM
> > Subject: Re: [HTCondor-devel] Considering moving design docs to Google
> > Drive
> > 
> > You mention the major downside in the proposal:
> > You become reliant on Google... i.e. you do not own the complete history
> > anymore.
> 
> Consider also github's wiki support.[1]  Since a github wiki is simply a git
> repository with plain-text files in it, it does not suffer from the
> downsides of Google Docs (e.g., third-party control, opaque file formats,
> necessity of manual export or backups).  Since it is hosted, it does not
> suffer from the obvious downsides of self-hosting collaboration software.
> There is a nice web frontend for editing github wikis, but you can use your
> preferred text editor (even offline) instead.  The github wiki software
> itself is open-source[2] and your data and history are always available in
> the repo, so if you needed to stop using github for whatever reason, you
> could still use the same software elsewhere without losing documents or
> history.  Finally, the github wiki system supports eight (maybe more these
> days) lightweight markup languages and has special support for code
> highlighting in at least some of them.
> 
> 
> 
> best,
> wb
> 
> [1] see https://github.com/blog/699-making-github-more-open-git-backed-wikis
> and https://github.com/blog/774-git-powered-wikis-improved
> [2] see https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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