[CentOS-devel] RFC (Request for Comments) : future of wiki.centos.org

Tue Feb 28 09:21:17 UTC 2023
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:05 AM 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)
>
> Kind Regards,
> --
> Fabian Arrotin
> The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org
> gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org]
>

Just wanted to add that there was a talk on this subject earlier:

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2022-August/thread.html#120541
"What to do with wiki.centos.org ? (let's discuss it)"

Akemi
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