[Gnumed-devel] MoinMoin (was: anyone noticed wiki problems)

[J Busser]

At 7:01 PM +1100 2/27/05, Tim Churches wrote:
> Is it too late to ditch TWiki and swap to MoinMoin, which is a wiki 
> written in Python rather than Perl? We use MoinMoin at work and 
> although it doesn't have as many features as Twiki, it is 
> trouble-free and also, for Pythonistas, the source code 
> understandable. It is siple enough that the entire source can be 
> examined in less than an hour, if you are keen (um, I skimmed 
> through it...).

This discussion last came up around December after hherb.com had been hacked.

I don't think it would be a matter of "too late". Not a lot has been 
invested in anything that is "TWiki specific". I understand "TWiki 
forms" to be a big advantage but I have so far lacked the technical 
comfort to get them going. So only if someone else got it going with 
us having significant investment would it be more of a problem.

Mainly (I think) it was that David Grant was familiar enough to get 
TWiki installed originally, then he and Karsten installed it at 
hherb.com which was hacked through its vulnerability (Horst has 
himself used TikiWiki being more sure of its security... it is 
however written in php). Then Carlos and David installed / set up 
TWiki at salaam.

If someone were to set up MoinMoin I would happily invest what time I 
can to get a bit more familiar with it. If someone deciphered its 
directory structure (maybe creating a Gnumed web within it) it could 
be tried copying the existing pages from TWiki and we could see what 
results. But the opening of this paragraph were key (as it is with 
this project in general): "If someone were to set up..."