[CentOS-devel] What to do with wiki.centos.org ? (let's discuss it)

Wed Aug 24 14:07:24 UTC 2022
Amy Marrich <amy at redhat.com>

Depending on how the pages are generated you should be able to do links and
images no problem with Markdown. But yeah not having to update 2 locations
would be nice as well as maintain 2 sites one of which is past EOL.

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 8:57 AM aleksander.baranowski via CentOS-devel <
centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:

> The Markdown with static site generator FTW.
>
> It's:
>
> - It's easier to contribute
> - It's easier to review changes and maintain proper review process
> - It's easier to setup
> - Deployment/Automation is trivial
>
> One of the problems that might arise is attachments, like images, YT
> links etc, and how to maintain them in a repo. But with proper
> documentation and rules, it's manageable.
>
> Links like "edit this page" that takes you right into the repository and
> source are extremely developer friendly and encourage contributions even
> for small things.
>
> The fact that anyone can build/recreate/check changes/experiment locally
> is also an important benefit.
>
> Best,
> Alex
>
> PS. I used my work e-mail, then tried to "unsent" and waited half-hour,
> so if this message goes twice on this mailing-list I'm sorry.
>
> On 8/24/22 15:08, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> > Some time ago, we started to suffer from spammers/load/etc against
> > wiki.centos.org
> >
> > We tried to implement various techniques , found on the moin wiki or
> > elsewhere but we have to face it : moin (http://moinmo.in/), then
> > underlying app for wiki.centos.org, is now unmaintained. Latest version
> > (that we run) is python 2.7 compatible but no plan for python 3, etc, etc
> >
> > For that reason, some SIGs (including Infra SIG), moved already their
> > doc to markdown format, easy to write/review through PR and
> > automatically rendered.
> >
> > The question is so : do we want/need to keep wiki.centos.org running ?
> > Most of the content (if not almost 99%) is outdated/unmaintained at this
> > stage, and deciding what to do about content , and how/where to migrate
> > it would make sense.
> >
> > That's tied to an old infra ticket open a long time ago
> > (https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/793) when we had to enabled
> > mod_qos, and other workarounds to just try to keep it running and
> > functional.
> >
> > Let's start a thread/discussion !
> >
> > @Shaun : as Docs leader, your voice/opinion/feedback would be greatly
> > appreciated ;-)
> >
> >
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