Quoting Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas (2025-01-13 22:06:01) > On Mon Jan 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM CET, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas (2025-01-12 21:54:58) > > > what would be truly amazing, imho, would be the whole wiki on git. > > > that'd allow for mass-updates, and reusing one's code (salsa) > > > workflows for documentation > > > > For those not only wishing that others made that happen, but > > consider scratching that particular itch themselves, I am happy to > > chat with you more detailed about what that involves, and how it is > > a quite exciting challenge - so exciting, in fact, that Debian has > > had several attempts at doing a migration over the years, but none > > so far have succeeded. > [..] > > But let's not hijack any further this thread about welcoming > > newcomers, > > let's create a new thread then :) > > > I just wanted to chime in to encourage anyone wanting to do the wiki > > modernization to get in touch with me to discuss further. > > thank you for the offer but why not have the follow up in a publicly > archived list? happy to switch to -www, if -devel is not ideal
Then let's move to the tinker team mailinglist: https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blend-tinker-devel > I think that a retrospective/postmortem of past attempts would be very > valuable. > I offer to write one if you'd be okay to share all of the context with > me (you could review it before it gets published). I don't mind discussing in public, but do mind doing it in this large forum. > also, I'd think that nailing down the requirements for a new platform > and for the content to be migrated (e.g. drop any pages that are >X > years old) would be an important prerequisite for any technical work. > has this been done in previous migration attempts? to start with, do > we have "rough consensus" that a git-backed wiki would be preferable? No, I am unaware of any consensus on any changes, just have a vague feeling that MoinMoin is somewhat as appreciated in Debian as CDBS :-) Anyone interested in discussing practicalities of migrating away from MoinMoin for the Debian wiki, please join the tinker mailinglist at https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blend-tinker-devel - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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