On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 7:05 AM Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen at redhat.com> wrote: > > > 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. > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20230227/c26d39dd/attachment-0002.html>