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

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On 10/06/2013 17:15, Alex Legler wrote:
> 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 in their project spaces and update/remove outdated contents as well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'?
+1, totally agree.. It's 2013 duh..

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