Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving project pages to wiki.gentoo.org

[Alex Legler <a3li@gentoo.org>]

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On 10.06.2013 14:36, Sergey Popov wrote:
> 09.06.2013 18:22, Alex Legler пишет:
>> I'd appreciate some input on below plan to move project pages to the Wiki:
>>
>> Motivation
>> ----------
>>
>> The main motivation is to reduce the contents on the main website,
>> allowing for an easier makeover. Also, the Wiki exposes the contents and
>> an editing capability to more people, allowing for better collaboration.
>> Finally, this is an opportunity for projects to go through the contents
>> in their project spaces and update/remove outdated contents as well
>> Gentoo as a whole to remove orphaned projects.
> 
> Err, i do not want to say that wiki is not suite for this purpose, but
> what's wrong with current situation? Is there something wrong with gorg?

The software is unmaintained, and the website template is next to
unmaintainable. I could go on a bit more about this, but I think these
two points *alone* justify moving away from it.

> Well, it is not always clear how to use some of it's features, but apart
> of that, why we should migrate to wiki?
> 
> Just to clear orphaned project pages?

No, I described multiple points. Again:
 - Less contents on www.g.o -> we can much more easily relaunch it
 - Users can more easily contribute to project documentation
 - Update/purge project documentation
 - Remove orphaned projects

> 
> Why we can not just have official project pages, maintained as usual
> through gorg and additional info in wiki(if it is needed, for example,
> like we do on Gentoo Qt project page?
> 

In case it wasn't clear enough yet: This is step 1 of n to get rid of
gorg and GuideXML for the website (read: not main docs) aspects of Gentoo.
Running two project page venues increases maintenance instead of
lowering it. I intend to have less work after this change, not more.

Do you have any concerns beyond 'never change a running system'?

-- 
Alex Legler <a3li@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Security/Ruby/Infrastructure


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