I would also prefer that the wiki run on free software; however if we had a decent import/export feature I would be satisfied.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>wrote: > Like said Dave this has been discussed in may. I have no strong opinion on > that. Apart the speed which is quite relative to the location where you > live maybe we should also take in consideration the fact that moinmoin is > quite more open than confluence is ie I don't need to ask a license (eve > free) to use it. Also not sure about the syntax as well. > > Since we are using Jira also written by Atlassian that may not a problem > though. > > My 2 cents. > > - benoit > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:24 AM, 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 > > >
