On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 7:05 AM Stephen Smoogen ssmoogen@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 03:06, Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org wrote:
Let's start discussing the future of wiki.centos.org !
There was a CentOS Docs SIG day happening on monday after Fosdem and during that day, we started to discuss the future of wiki.centos.org.
As a reminder : https://wiki.centos.org is actually powered by moin (http://moinmo.in/), which is :
- python 2.x based
- unmaintained
It's also running on CentOS Linux 7 (for these requirements), itself going EOL next year. Also worth adding that it's under constant spammer load, with plenty of bots trying to write content, be denied, and trying in a different way, so it's really a "whack a mole" game.
For all these reasons, it has to be replaced by something else, (still a wiki) or even better, be decommissioned entirely and eventually moved to a git workflow.
FWIW, it's what is used for all websites from various SIGs under https://sigs.centos.org (including the SIG guide itself, https://sigs.centos.org/guide)
As a follow-up on the CentOS SIG day, an investigation (see https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1061) was started as a PoC to just extract wiki content in a readable (static) format, so that we can still host a "read-only" version (archived) of wiki content, while a new service (wiki or else) would replace it.
All comments/remarks are welcome, and let's have a plan about what to do (the sooner, the better)
I think a git pull-request oriented wiki-like would be better with some sort of Markdown2HTML (fill in ascii format ) frontend. The older wiki can be dumped to html, html2markdown, cleaned up and then fronted with 'Hugo' or something.
Speaks a someone who recently started a SIG, it's confusing having half the documentation in a wiki https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltImages
and half the documentation in a different place https://sigs.centos.org/ https://sigs.centos.org/altimages/
I've had a really hard time with my documentation because each time I talk to someone they point to a different place, and I have to literally duplicate what I did in two different places. My vote. Drop the wiki entirely in a controlled manner.
Troy