I'll post the most salient bit IMO from the thread, as I was having trouble reaching the link (ASF's infrastructure being a bit wonky there, I guess). This was from Mike Van:
--- When ServiceMix tried to move more aggressively to Wiki, James Strachan (uber committer extra-ordinaire) said the following: Finding contributions are very rare in documentation from non committers (and anyone who provides a decent amount of docs as a patch should be a committer anyway IMHO) - so the wiki isn't that big a deal really; the actual committers typically would rather be able to edit the docs using text editors (search & replace FTW!). --- On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Billie Rinaldi <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 that is on the wiki is often out of date.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 > > > > > > > > > > -- // Bill Havanki // Solutions Architect, Cloudera Govt Solutions // 443.686.9283
