Flavio Percoco wrote: > On 03/07/17 13:58 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Flavio Percoco wrote: >>> Sometimes I wonder if we still need to maintain a Wiki. I guess some >>> projects still use it but I wonder if the use they make of the Wiki >>> could be moved >>> somewhere else. >>> >>> For example, in the TC we use it for the Agenda but I think that >>> could be moved >>> to an etherpad. Things that should last forever should be documented >>> somewhere >>> (project repos, governance repo in the TC case) where we can actually >>> monitor >>> what goes in and easily clean up. >> >> This is a complete tangent, but I'll bite :) We had a thorough >> discussion about that last year, summarized at: >> >> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-June/096481.html >> >> TL,DR; was that while most authoritative content should (and has been >> mostly) moved off the wiki, it's still useful as a cheap publication >> platform for teams and workgroups, somewhere between a git repository >> with a docs job and an etherpad. >> >> FWIW the job of migrating authoritative things off the wiki is still >> on-going. As an example, Thingee is spearheading the effort to move the >> "How to Contribute" page and other first pointers to a reference website >> (see recent thread about that). > > I guess the short answer is that we hope one day we won't need it. I > certainly > do. > > What would happen if we make the wiki read-only? Would that break peopl's > workflow? > > Do we know what teams modify the wiki more often and what it is they do > there?
The data is publicly available (see recent changes on the wiki). Most ops workgroups heavily rely on the wiki, as well as a significant number of upstream project teams and workgroups. Developers are clearly not the main target. You can dive back into the original analysis etherpad if you're interested: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/wiki-use-cases Things that are stroked out are things we moved to reference websites since then. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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