----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Wagner" <[email protected]> > To: "Mike Orazi" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 10:33:19 AM > Subject: Re: moving wiki content > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 10:15:14AM -0500, Mike Orazi wrote: > > On 12/06/2012 05:32 PM, Mo Morsi wrote: > > >Hey Greg, migrated your wiki and tossed it up on my fedorapeople > > >account > > >(haven't used that in forever!). You can find the github > > >compatible > > >textile here: > > > > > >http://mmorsi.fedorapeople.org/audrey-wiki.tgz > > While I think this approach is perfectly fine, just in terms of > semantics for future migrations, I'd say that the "migration" > includes > putting the content up on GitHub. This feels more like an export than > a > migration.
Hey Matt, it's actually on github also: https://github.com/aeolusproject/audrey/wiki/_pages That may have been just an intermediate step between publishing to github. > > > As a point of general information, when Matt and I ran through the > > process to see about feasibility we took the textile and ran it > > through pandoc[1] to convert it to markdown prior to pushing it > > into > > the github wiki. Every project is free to make their own decision > > on > > what format works best for them -- the underlying engine that > > github > > uses to render the wiki supports a fair number of lightweight > > markup > > languages[2]. > <snip> > > [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ > > [2] https://github.com/github/gollum#readme > > Yes, when I did an experimental migration from Redmine to GitHub for > the > Conductor wiki (on my fork of the project), I used Pandoc to convert > everything to Markdown. > > The GitHub wiki will merrily work with either format (and some > others), > but when you create a page in one format, it stays in that format. > Since > Markdown seems a lot more popular (and, IMHO, sane) than Textile, I > thought it made sense to bulk-convert everything as well. > > So I'd say the flow should be export from Redmine -> pandoc -> import > to > GitHub as Markdown. > > -- Matt >
