> On Aug 26, 2023, at 12:38 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Jim wrote: >>> (This is a long email. Feel free to skip ahead to the "MY PROPOSAL" >>> section at the end.) >>> > [..] >>> MY PROPOSAL: >>> >>> I did some analysis, and the FreeDOS Wiki has 290 pages in it. That's >>> more than a few, but it's not a ton. >>> >>> My current thinking is to set up a new wiki.freedos.org website >>> (re-point the "wiki.freedos.org" name to the new website) and do a >>> manual copy/paste of all 290 pages. It would be a pain to do all that >>> by hand, but I would like to use that opportunity to do some wiki >>> cleanup at the same time. >>> >>> When the new wiki.freedos.org is ready, I would change the "wiki" >>> links on www.freedos.org to point to the new wiki.freedos.org website. >>> I can add new wiki editors at that time, and probably set up a "self >>> service" feature so folks can create their own wiki accounts (would >>> need to look at how to prevent spamming). > [..] > > Jerome wrote: >> Hi Jim, >> >> Just a thought… >> >> GitLab has Wiki support for the projects. >> >> Would require manually glueing an index together of the projects with >> Wikis under a main “landing page” which could be a project like >> issue-reporting. Then point wiki.Freedos.org to that page. > > > Sounds interesting, and probably less work - and that's always good. > :-) But I'm concerned about walking into another situation down the > road where we need to relocate the wiki once again. When we used the > shared wiki at SF, that was a good idea at the time .. until they > stopped offering it. Could the same happen with a GitLab-hosted wiki? > > If the wiki is hosted on a website we control, I think we'll be less > likely to run into these problems down the road. And we'll have better > control over branding, for example.
That’s a valid concern. It also applies the projects themselves. But, that is one of reasons I used GitLab to setup the “FreeDOS Archive” for the projects over other version control systems like SourceForge or even GitHub. The community edition of GitLab itself is open source. It can be downloaded and run on your own server and provides the same functionality as a top-tier paid GitLab account. You just need to pay for your own hosting/server somewhere. Plus, exporting/migrating from GitLab to a private server should be fairly easy. They provided numerous utilities to do such things for projects. That should apply to a wiki and other related items attached to any specific projects. I have run my own instance of GitLab in the past. But, I went back to just using GitLab for free. It’s hard to beat free. However, switching to self hosted instance of GitLab for the FreeDOS projects is always an option in the future. If it was on its own server, you could even install JITSI to host your own video conferencing solution. ;-) Jerome > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
