Inspirational Technology

Xindice Wiki

Just discovered there's a Wiki setup for the Xindice project. That's a very good thing to see as one of the major problems with the Apache projects is that it's too much trouble to update the web site regularly and this leads to stale sites. The Xindice web site is a prime example of this. I was looking at it the other day and noticed it doesn't even have any links to where you can download Xindice 1.1. The problem is it's a multistep process, you have to write the content in XML using Forrest, build the site, make sure it's right and then copy it up to the server. It doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but for me it's enough that it got in the way of making as many updates as I'd like. It seems this has carried forward with the current committers as well.

The other major benefit of the Wiki is that anyone can edit it and this leads to incremental development of the content. There's no bottleneck waiting for someone to come in and publish things.