A right, my bad. Anyway I took a look at the formatting syntax of
Confluence and it looks quite decent so count me in.
Do we already have a list of stuff we want to convert or is that step
one?
Cheers,
Octavian Damiean
Two separate initiatives.
Alexander has been moving some wiki content to RST. Stuff that needs
to go
in our manual.
This thread is about moving the rest to Confluence.
Help with either is appreciated!
On 12 August 2013 19:13, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm volunteering as well.
>
> As far as I understood it is about converting the "good" parts
of the
> wiki to RST, right?
>
>
>
>
> Octavian Damiean
>
> Launchpad: [https://launchpad.net/~mainerror:
> <https://launchpad.net/~mainerror>]
> Stack Overflow: [http://stackoverflow.com/u/418183:
> <http://stackoverflow.com/users/418183>]
>
>
>
> Okay, follow up:
>
> 1) Confluence has a CAPTCHA system, so we can drop the "you have
to be
> manually added to a list of approved contributors" rule. (If we
get
> spam,
> despite having a CAPTCHA, we can add the same sort of rule. But
at
> least we
> get to try it and see.)
>
> 2) Still looking at conversions tools. At this point, I think
I'm
> happy to
> volunteer to do it by hand. It's gonna be hard to automate this
stuff
> anyway. Our wiki is quite small, and we should be loosing about
60% of
> it
> anyway, with Alexander's work on the docs.
>
>
> On 12 August 2013 18:43, Octavian Damiean
<[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > That's a +1 Form me too.
> > On Aug 12, 2013 2:33 AM, "Noah Slater"
<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I tested CloudStack's Confluence wiki[1], and it seems
> perfectly fine to
> > > me.
> > >
> > > I am posting a quick note to Infra to ask them if
MoinMoin is
> likely to
> > > fixed any time soon. It's been like this for ages.
> > >
> > > [1]
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Home
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12 August 2013 01:31, Robert Newson
<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've no love for the current wiki stack, will
Confluence be
> faster? +1
> > if
> > > > so.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 12 August 2013 01:24, Noah Slater
<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > > > Hi folks,
> > > > >
> > > > > We're moving the docs to the source, which is great!
> > > > >
> > > > > However, we still have some stuff that we wanna keep
on
> the wiki for
> > > now:
> > > > >
> > > > > * Weekly news (not started yet)
> > > > > * Merge procedure
> > > > > * Release procedure
> > > > > * Release preparation
> > > > > * Test procedure
> > > > > * Committer election process
> > > > > * PMC election process
> > > > > * Community guide
> > > > > * Roadmap process
> > > > > * Board reports
> > > > > * Board report guide
> > > > > * Code of conduct
> > > > > * PMC charter
> > > > > * By-laws
> > > > > * Marketing guide
> > > > > * CouchDB vision stuff
> > > > >
> > > > > Um. Probably more stuff. That's just stuff I am
interested
> in working
> > > on.
> > > > > Anyway, this is all project-level stuff. Doesn't
belong on
> the
> > > homepage,
> > > > > doesn't belong in the manual.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been editing the wiki more and more recently,
and I
> gotta tell
> > > you:
> > > > > it's a bag of shit. I mean really, I pressed
"submit" on a
> change
> > about
> > > > 20
> > > > > seconds before sending this email, and I'm still
writing
> this email,
> > > and
> > > > > the page is still loading.
> > > > >
> > > > > I dunno if any of you have had any experience with
the
> wiki recently,
> > > but
> > > > > it's been this slow for months. And I am not
confident
> it's gonna get
> > > any
> > > > > better.
> > > > >
> > > > > For that reason, I keep thinking about moving to
> Confluence. I'm not
> > > sure
> > > > > how much work is involved in that. Perhaps people
wanna
> help out?
> > > > >
> > > > > Might be a nice opportunity to clear out the stuff
that is
> in Moin,
> > > that
> > > > we
> > > > > don't want there any more, because it's in the docs.
(i.e.
> We just
> > > > wouldn't
> > > > > move it over.)
> > > > >
> > > > > If you don't regularly edit the wiki, I'm hoping you
wont
> mind the
> > > > proposed
> > > > > move. As I say, as someone who is using it fairly
> regularly, it is
> > > > causing
> > > > > me a lot of problems.
> > > > >
> > > > > (Though, I really don't need to be adding work to my
> plate. Perhaps
> > > > someone
> > > > > else would be interested in moving the content over?
> Eugh.)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Noah Slater
> > > > > https://twitter.com/nslater
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Noah Slater
> > > https://twitter.com/nslater
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Noah Slater
> https://twitter.com/nslater
>
>
--
Noah Slater
https://twitter.com/nslater
