Re: FAQ groupware?

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Al Gilman (asgilman@access.digex.net)
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:59:23 -0500 (EST)


I am not current on the WEBDAV status, but that is a place
where there are standards being attempted for this application.

I really don't understand. Who is represented in this newsgroup?
Software testing should be way out ahead of the general web
document on this scenario.

I guess the problem is that you are trying to operate with the
access your firewall gives the public, whereas all the industrial
solutions assume that there are high privacy walls surrounding
software test, and that only the trusted may enter.

How does the Linux community check-in software for integration
test? Maybe you can get them to host the integration activity
for your FAQ?

You might want to snoop around the MIME boosters to see if anyone
is mirroring WEBDAV by implementing distributed authoring over
mail or news trasport.

I know I am interested in knowing about a mailbot-based
web-posting solution.

If I had to do it myself, I would have a script that builds the
whole thing from the pieces and all that would be handled by the
mailbot is a trigger from one of your sub-editors which conveys
"hey, I have put up a new version of my fragment." Then your
makefile checks its currency for all pieces and pulls any pieces
where it fails to have what it needs.

There are various smart sync packages like this. No I don't
recall any names.

Al

to follow up on what Danny R. Faught said:

> I've recruited several helpers for the comp.software.testing FAQ. Now
> I'm looking for a way for any of the helpers to make changes. I'm
> considering writing an email interface to a revision control system,
> since my firewall prevents telnet access. Does any such groupware
> already exist?
>
> -Danny
>



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