Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Link from the packet list context menu to the corresponding w

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:58:04 -0600
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> 
>> I think 1) would be best.
>>
>>
>> Since so much is still missing from the wiki it might be good that for
>> now, when the user selects that menu item, that there would first be a
>> popup that says something about
>> what the wiki is, that it is new and very incomplete and that they are
>> encouraged to add new and missing pages. when they click ok on the
>> popup they are redirected to the wiki.
>>  
>>
> That sounds reasonable. I will add this after the release is out and
> uncomment the "whole thing" then, so developers can add things before
> the next release comes.

I created the releases/ethereal-0.10.9 branch in SVN yesterday.  You can
uncomment the menu code in the trunk if you'd like.


>> better also check with gerald first so that 1000000 users hitting the
>> wiki every day doesnt kill his link and/or webserver.
>>     
>>
> Gerald, I think you are reading this too, do you see any problems with
> this?

This shouldn't be a problem.  The server has plenty of resources
available, and we can add more if needed.  I think this feature has
enough potential that it shouldn't be suppressed.