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

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