Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics we discussed

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> * The current geda.seul.org download page ideas and comments.
> Particular question:  Is it too complicated?

As a side note, try out the DJGPP "zip picker" page, which asks you
useful questions, recommends downloads, and provides targetted install
instructions:

	http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html

> We discussed whether PCB worked fully, natively under Windoze (not
> under Cygwin, but possibly under MinGW).

Note that I'm in the middle of rewriting the entire PCB gui layer to
be able to compile with either gtk, lesstif, or win32.  I won't
promise to ever *finish* it, but at least it's getting attention.  At
the moment my work tree is a horrible mess because the GUI has always
been so ingrained in PCB.

> The problem is spam, and how to control/prohibit spammers from
> writing garbage to the gEDA Wiki?

Can't wiki be configured to require authentication?  Then you can
leave it at "anyone can edit anything" but define "anyone" to be
"anyone who has gotten Ales' permission".  If you're clever you can
copy the authentication information from CVS (if wiki uses the same
scheme).

Or just put the web pages under CVS control.

> An alternative is to allow free writing for the writable pages by
> everybody, but have the gEDA-cvs mailing list mail out a notice to
> everybody with CVS access.

Or, a separate geda-wiki mailing list.  Many GNU projects to this for
their CVS changes already.