Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:09:27 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: www@freebsd.org Subject: Regarding all the user-supplied databases Message-ID: <199701302009.VAA04994@knight.cons.org>
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We've seen a number of demands for WWW page contents that should be changable without a maintainer's action. This is a call for more place where such a beast is needed so I can direct my search on focus. So far I have: 1) Some sort of FAQ database. While the main FAQ can be kept tight, the idea is to have a database of FAQ submission that can be searched by users. Submissions to the database should be nearly unrestricted, something like a mailing list where people can be sure every message contains a complete solution description for a given problem. What we need, not only for the FAQ, is a mechanism, where WWW-accessable material can be submitted without action from the server maintainer. It should also be possible for the original author to update his/her own submission (passwd-protected) and other people should be able to submit followups that appear besides the original messages. 2) Commercial entries should be editable by the responsible parties (once someone approved the company is serious and gave them a passwd or such). 3) FreeBSD-related projects should have pages that can be changed by outside people. See www.netbsd.org for an example project page. N) If you have something in that line, drop me a note, please. I started looking into tools to do so, using GNATS seems overpowered, using simple mailing lists/ml-seraching underpowered. Before I continue, help me outlining demands. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (batched, preferred for large mails) Tel.: (daytime) +4940 41478712 Fax.: (daytime) +4940 41478715 Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 Paper: (private) Waldstrasse 200, 22846 Norderstedt, Germany
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