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[NICK VERBECK <nerdynick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why not just combined both the Wiki and website hosting ideas and do
what Google Code did with its wiki.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:13:22 -0500
> Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> As you might imagine, this has been discussed (a lot) by the Launchpad
>> developers.  I suspect the reason it hasn't happened yet is just the
>> design complications -- how to offer semi-arbitrary web-editing while
>> at the same time preserving a consistent look-and-feel in Launchpad,
>> and making sure that Launchpad's features stay accessible from each
>> project. This doesn't mean it's impossible, just hard.
>
> I'd think that people would rather not like that.  The idea behind
> webspace would be to have completely arbitrary sites.
>
> That said, while I cannot speak for everyone that would use such a
> service, I would not be opposed to some mandatory linking if it weren't
> terribly over the time.  For example, SF requires that you have an
> image that links back to their site.  LP could do the same thing.
>
> LP could even expose some sort of API that could be used to quickly and
> easily embed information about the Launchpad project on the site,
> though I think it'd be too much to require that it be used.  I also
> think that imposing look-and-feel requirements would be a bit much,
> since each project is naturally going to have its own identity.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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