On 14 March 2017 at 03:55, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
> > I urge you to try giving the in-tree docs a chance. It may not be the way > *you* want it but I have to point out that they're the best we've seen in > Cassandra world. Making them prettier won't help anything. > Agreed > > Part of CASSANDRA-8700 was to shut down the wiki. I still advocate for > this. At the very minimum we should make it read only with a big notice > that points people to the in-tree docs. > Agreed. Am unable to see the value that the old wiki provides. We should at the very least change it to say it is deprecated and point to the in-tree docs. I am more than happy to make these changes if we think this is a good idea. > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 8:49 AM Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The moinmoin wiki was preferred but because of spam, images couldn’t be > > attached. The options were to use confluence or have a moderated list of > > individuals be approved to update the wiki. The decision was made to go > > with the latter because of the preference to stick with moinmoin rather > > than confluence. That’s my understanding of the history there. I don’t > > know if people would like to revisit using one or the other at this > point, > > though it would take a bit of work to convert. > > > > > On Mar 13, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Isn't there a way to split tech docs (aka reference) and more > > >> user-generated and use-case related/content oriented docs? And maybe > to > > use > > >> a more modern WIKI software or scheme. The CS wiki looks like 1998. > > > > > > The wiki is what ASF Infra provides by default. Agree that it is a bit > > > "old-school." > > > > > > I'll ask around about what other projects are doing (or folks who are > > > involved in other ASF projects, please chime in). > > > > >
