I've asked this before, and never got a satisfying response. Now,
it has become more urgent, so I'm asking again:
What's the path forward for anyone running a MoinMoin wiki (which
needs Python 2.x) on Debian? This includes both the Debian project
itself (wiki.debian.org), and my own wiki (mywiki.wooledge.org).
The reason this has become more urgent for me is because I just received
notification that the platform on which my wiki is running is going to
be end-of-lifed on December 31. I'll need to migrate to a newer
platform, and it will almost certainly mean a new version of Debian.
I'm currently running on Debian 10, because it has Python 2.
I'm running MoinMoin 1.9.11 which is the most recent stable release
of the wiki engine (from November 2020, nearly 6 years ago).
MoinMoin 2.x (which would support Python 3, as I understand it) appears
to be in a comatose state. It had a single alpha release in March 2024,
over 2.5 years ago.
All of the options that I can see have substantial drawbacks:
1) Continue running on Debian 10, if that's even possible.
Drawbacks: no security updates.
2) Migrate the wiki content to a different engine.
Drawbacks: massive amount of work, probable loss of functionality,
confusion for users.
3) Build python 2.x + packages myself on a newer Debian system.
Drawbacks: large amount of work, possible python security issues.
The last time I looked at this issue, and tried to evaluate wiki engines
to which the content could be ported, none of them came even *close* to
MoinMoin's feature set, except of course MediaWiki, which has its own
separate issues (needs PHP, needs a MySQL or equivalent database).
Has anyone done #3 yet, and have any success stories or horror stories
they'd like to share?
