During the January monthly LTS contributor meeting rouca asked about the
possibility of a "FrontDesk Wiki". I've done a (very) small amount of
research and a little bit of pondering and here are my thoughts.

We seem to have two easily accessible possibilities, more or less.

- create pages on the main Debian Wiki (i.e., wiki.debian.org)
- use a project-specific wiki on Salsa and/or GitLab

Given the age and state of the Debian Wiki (including that several years
ago we migrated most of our other LTS-related content away from it into
projects on Salsa and also including that the wiki software is somewhat
dated and the future path is not clear), I lean towards Salsa and/or
GitLab.

With that in mind, I checked two projects which seem like good
candidates and both already have the wiki feature enabled:

https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-updates-tasks/-/wikis/home
https://gitlab.com/freexian/services/deblts-team/extended-lts/-/wikis/home

It seems like we should generally prefer the first one for most things.
Since it is on Salsa it is public, and the great majority of what FD
does can (and should) be public. In the event that there is some sort of
non-public thing that needs to be restricted to a Freexian-only
audience, then a corresponding page can be created in the second wiki
and linked from the first.

So, with all of that out of the way, I invite the contributors who are
part of the FD rotation to jump in and start creating whatever wiki
content makes sense to have shared among those participating in FD
duties.

My recommendation is to create a "Front Desk" category or top-page, or
whatever the terminology is for the wiki component in GitLab, and then
create the content under that, so that the project wiki is not Front
Desk only and it is easy for pages to be added later for other concerns.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

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