wiki madness

[Mike McGrath]

Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>   
>> Option 3: Roll our own TurboGears wiki
>>
>> Advantages:
>> - We're in control (workflow, features, upstream, etc.)
>> - Integration with FAS is trivial
>>
>> Disadvantages:
>> - Almost no current specifications
>> - Minimal existing code (based on requirements)
>> - Smaller developer base
>> - Content many need to be transcribed (based on requirements)
>> - GSoC work may need retooling (based on requirements)
>>     
>
> Won't there be performance problems with a TurboGears-based wiki?  I 
> thought MirrorManager was having issues with TG performance and had to 
> enable form-data caching to get acceptable performance at the cost of 
> possibly stale data.  I don't know the details behind it, but that was 
> the reason I was given for why when you edit forms in MM it sometimes 
> returns old pre-edit field values.
>   

Correct me if I'm wrong mdomsch, but I think the performance issues were 
with the database having to hit it with every request.  The same would 
happen with any other framework that was coded the same way.

    -Mike