On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote: > it's all in the title : what's next for wiki.centos.org ? > > As a reminder, current wiki.centos.org instance is powered by moinmoin > (https://moinmo.in/) but quite an old version (moin-1.5.8-3.el6.noarch) > > Recently I had a quick look at trying to update/upgrade that version to > something newer/supported, but it's a nightmare : the data conversion > just kill the target server (oom) and no way to know why. When trying to > get help from moin people in their irc server, I was answered that such > old version wasn't supported, and that those upgrade scripts themselves > aren't supported either, so nobody would help finding why they'd be > buggy without having access to the full data. > > Of course exposing the whole wiki instance (including user/pass) isn't > an option, so except if somebody has really a clue about what can go > wrong with the update script from 1.5 to 1.6 (and then it has to be done > for each major.minor upgrade, so all that in a chained operation), the > migration will be impossible. > > That's why I'd like to discuss a possibility to move wiki to something > else, and that's even why we should discuss the need for a wiki itself. > > If we want to continue to have community written/maintained content, > should be still use a wiki or something else ? Moin was selected ~10y > ago for its simplicity and online editing, but in 2017, most people (dev > and ops) are probably using other workflows, like git/pull-requests/etc. > > So what about exploring other possibilities ? > > I don't have a real proposal (even if mkdocs.org , simple solution with > Markdown, combined with git would be perfect for me) but just wanted to > start a dedicated thread so that we can think about the future of > wiki.centos.org > > Opinions ? Proposals ? anything else ? Fee free to comment :-) I personally would like to see an update to the current wiki. However if this is not plausible, maybe an alternative like mediawiki can be considered? One note I want to make is that use of git may not be suitable/best for docs and certainly will be frowned upon by some notable contributors to the current wiki. Akemi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20171212/97fce496/attachment-0006.html>