There is a somewhat nonlinear thread entitled "wiki & release" in incubator-accumulo-dev on Oct 26, 2011. [1] contains the main arguments against, but my capitulation was in a later message.
[1]: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-accumulo-dev/201110.mbox/%3CCAPHPUs%2BEEm9%2BAM%3D06Ogj6nttNXRQFcT2AxhvvaNT%3DLn6fzZwzQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote: > Billie, > > Do you have a link to the archives? > > I don't even know which mailing list to start searching through, or what > time frame to look in. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Billie Rinaldi > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > We originally evaluated whether we would have a wiki and decided against. > > I don't mind reevaluating now, but it should not be a foregone conclusion > > that we should have one. Often when projects have a website and wiki, > it's > > confusing where to look for which information. Also, project > documentation > > that is on the wiki is often out of date. If we want to consider setting > > up a wiki because it would be better than our website for housing some > > specific types of information, I'd like those types to be identified > before > > we start. > > > > Billie > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Bill Havanki <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > There has been talk about establishing some wiki space for the Accumulo > > > project. ASF offers two wiki platforms: MoinMoin at wiki.apache.organd > > > Confluence at cwiki.apache.org. Each has pros and cons, and if we > > > establish > > > a wiki we should just pick one. > > > > > > I believe the MoinMoin site is more prevalent ASF-wide, and there is > > > already a Hadoop wiki [1] established which we would go under. We can > > > request members of its AdminGroup [not viewable] to add us to the > > > ContributorsGroup [2], and then we would be able to author content. (We > > can > > > ask infra as well.) > > > > > > The Confluence site offers some extra features like commenting and > > perhaps > > > looks nicer (certainly subjective). There is a page [3] touching on > some > > > differences. To get started there, we would request a "space" from > infra. > > > > > > Related projects on MoinMoin: Hadoop, HBase > > > Related projects on Confluence: Hive, Pig, ZooKeeper (all having > migrated > > > from MoinMoin) > > > > > > So, questions to be answered: > > > > > > 1) Shall we establish a wiki? (I can call a vote if needed.) > > > 2) Which platform? > > > 3) Who is interested in edit rights? > > > > > > [1] https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ > > > [2] https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ContributorsGroup > > > [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Cwiki > > > > > > Thanks > > > Bill H > > > > > > -- > > > // Bill Havanki > > > // Solutions Architect, Cloudera Govt Solutions > > > // 443.686.9283 > > > > > >
