[Trac] pyblosxom and trac (little off topic)

[trac at nogga.de]

Hi,

I was about installing a blog engine on my computer. While investigating
the pros and cons of different engines I came across the
edgewall.com/blog pages. It seems that edgewall is using the pyblosxom
engine. There is also a feature request about a possible integration of
trac and pyblosxom (http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ticket/607) and a
small discussion thread on the pybloxsom mailing list as well
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5669837&forum_id=14057)

In the ticket #607 you mention a script to wrap pyblosxom. what does
this script actually do? Is it available somewhere? Can you give further
information about the blog installation on edgewall (for a blog
newcommer)? Are there plans to integrate a (project) blog engine into trac?

I'm looking for a blog engine that can accept very different sources of
information like eMails, web posts and perhaps subversion repositories
(this idea came from the pyblosxom mailing archive at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9629897) . I don't
know about WebDAV and XML-RPC interfaces and client tools, since I
haven't used them up to now.

As usual, if you have two similar tools at hand the problem arises which
tool to use for which task. For me the Wiki has more a kind of relativ
static infomation (like documentation) character, while eMails and
message lists are highly dynamic in nature. After solving the problem
the content of a discussion thread should move into the documentation
(into the wiki). For me Blogs are in between of mailing lists and wikis.
They serve as a long durable kind of information sink for project
progress but are more unfinished than the documentation in the wiki.
They also provide a clear comment hierarchy. Dicussion groups build with
wikis are not very readable (in my opinion), since you have to read a
lot more than necessary to follow the discussion. They also doesn't
provide a clear nesting level of the answers.

So if somebody could propose a blog engine with an eMail to blog gateway
and perhaps some integration with trac, please do it now.

Thanks for ideas
Dirk