[Development] Which wiki tool (was Re: Call for Volunteers: SSO-improvements for qt-project.org)

[Quim Gil]

Thanks for the info!

On 12/07/2011 12:00 PM, ext Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 12/7/2011 2:45 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
>> - User profiles
>> Single sign-on is indeed nice, but in an open project is even nicer to
>> have user profiles the own users can edit and everybody can see, showing
>> who is who in that project. All the better if admins / tools can add
>> information automatically e.g. links to my bug reports, my pages edited,
>> permissions granted... Now we have MediaWiki profiles manually editable,
>> and I have no idea whether those JIRA accounts could generate sensible
>> profile pages.
>
> Crowd will automatically fill some things into Confluence, but users can
> also edit their own information. Also, users can have their own personal
> spaces showing all sorts of information, see for example
>
> http://blogs.atlassian.com/confluence/2009/09/21/personal_space.png (a
> very old screenshot of personal spaces from when they first went in).
>
> Not sure if you can modify it to show things like permissions granted,
> but I doubt it's impossible...Confluence is pretty customizable.

Looking at 
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/User+Profile+Overview there 
seems to be some kind of microblog functionality embedded. We have 
briefly discussed the need for a better communication from contributors, 
and I wonder if this combined with those labels could help.

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Quim