[Development] Call for Volunteers: SSO-improvements for qt-project.org

Craig.Scott at csiro.au Craig.Scott at csiro.au
Wed Dec 7 09:22:18 CET 2011


On 07/12/2011, at 5:37 PM, Robin Burchell wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Jeff Mitchell <qt at jefferai.org> wrote:
>> At Qt Contributor Day in SF I talked to Alexandra Leisse about
>> MediaWiki. Specifically, she hates MediaWiki, and I suggested moving to
>> Confluence, as it's a much, much, much, much nicer wiki than MediaWiki,
> 
> I think this is a tiny bit overly hasty, considering we already have
> someone who has started to help get MediaWiki into shape for us.
> 
> I'm also not the world's greatest fan of open projects tying
> themselves to tooling with commercial/restrictive licenses. Qt already
> has this to some degree, and it's something I'm not overly keen to see
> expand without very good reason.


Without entering into the "which is better" debate, Confluence can be used for free for open source projects, so I don't think the commercial/restrictive comment is a fair one in this case. It really isn't any less relevant than any other wiki implementation based on licensing/price. The fact that Qt already uses JIRA for which Confluence is well integrated (they are from the same vendor) means that this really should at least be given consideration.

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Dr Craig Scott
Computational Software Engineering Team Leader, CSIRO (CMIS)
Melbourne, Australia






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