[Gnumed-devel] Twiki issues

[J Busser]

Hi everyone

I am still not fully caught up on some personal stuff (I could write 
my own version of the 12 days of Christmas, to include the kitchen 
drain plugging Christmas day, faucet falling apart, dishwasher dying, 
toddler spitting milk into the new digital piano, wife's car hit by a 
priest etc) but am catching up.

I have a few thoughts to add to the thread "re-think in 2005", maybe 
in a couple of days.

Nice to see TWiki up, I have therefore updated link at gnumed.org --- 
when I did so I *was* perplexed to find missing the notice I had put 
up advising in late November that the wiki was *down*, dunno if Tony 
is aware of any problems around then or if it was just bad luck, and 
my edit was not accepted.

Several questions about the TWiki install and our usage preferences

Carlos, what version of Twiki was installed --- was it  01-Sep-2004 
Release (Cairo) --- and what installation 'steps" have so far been 
done? I am guessing there is work to be done if one were to actually 
follow the referance installation guide. For example email may 
somehow have to be enabled before it is possible for users to create 
profiles and make changes to the content as anyone other than 
TwikiGuest. There are additional things that need to be done, like 
adding myself and maybe David Grant (if willing) and Thilo and anyone 
else willing/appropriate to the TWikiAdmin group and uncommenting the 
ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup line.

Do we want to preserve TWikiGuest or do we want to revoke it so that 
people can only make changes after having created their own user 
profile? --- It could be helpful to know who has made certain 
changes. I imagine it should remain possible for the public to read 
pages despite disabling TWikiGuest?

At http://193.145.44.114/twiki/ along with a few TWiki documents, is 
a "Note: These pages do not need to be accessible by http. Access 
http://your.server.com/your-cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome after you 
install TWiki"

1. Is it important for someone to disable general read access to this 
directory?
2. If so is the documentation linked via the wiki, or should special 
permissions be needed to directly access these files later?  We do 
need to keep these versions available, because the documentation at 
the main twiki site will change as they work on new versions.

Shall we add gnumed to twiki.org's list of installations?
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiInstallation

Who should subscribe to twiki-announce security alerts as per 
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TWikiSecurityAlerts
I can add myself, and (provided I am not away or indisposed) I can 
try to quickly notify people of any concerns. My technical ability to 
respond is, however, limited. Should we have at least 3 people 
subscribed and among these should at least one be Carlos or Karsten 
or David or anyone else who has (or is willing to have) the 
permissions necessary to respond to security alerts?