On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 03:06, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at 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. -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20230227/95d17623/attachment-0002.html>