> I am -1 for recovering Wiki as it was. -0 if we are talking about creating a 
> new Wiki from scratch on Atlassian Cloud, just for Jenkins GitHub 
> organization members. No Jenkins LDAP would be needed there if we chose such 
> a way.

-1 for Atlassian Cloud. To me, it's still not an option unless we ask 
contributors to create an Atlassian account.
https://support.atlassian.com/security-and-access-policies/docs/configure-saml-single-sign-on-with-an-identity-provider/

> I think that Google Docs are quite fine, and I am definitely responsible for 
> dozens of Google Docs we have in the community.

To me, they are throw away documentation. Ideally, I would like to easily find 
old information especially when we organize events like Fosdem or to review 
past contributor summit notes.



On Thu, May 6, 2021, at 4:45 PM, Oleg Nenashev wrote:
> I am -1 for recovering Wiki as it was. -0 if we are talking about creating a 
> new Wiki from scratch on Atlassian Cloud, just for Jenkins GitHub 
> organization members. No Jenkins LDAP would be needed there if we chose such 
> a way. 
> 
> IMHO Wiki can be largely replaced by Documentation-as-Code in repositories, 
> hackmd, and, if needed, on GitHub Wiki pages.SIGs could move the moist of the 
> contents there. Same for the Governance meeting, we could move to HackMd 
> easily. Advanced forums like Discourse could also help to store particular 
> pieces of content one would put on Wiki
> 
> I think that Google Docs are quite fine, and I am definitely responsible for 
> dozens of Google Docs we have in the community. Indeed it is nearly 
> impossible to find something due to many different accounts being used. Maybe 
> having a sponsored GSuite account or Switching to OwnCloud could be an option 
> if we want to centralize the location of the documents.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 3:57 PM Tim Jacomb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Please no, wiki's suck for quality documentation.
>> 
>> Anyone can put whatever rubbish they want there.
>> 
>> On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 14:41, 'Olblak' via Jenkins Infrastructure 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> __
>>> Hi Everybody, 
>>> 
>>> During the last Infrastructure meeting 
>>> <https://github.com/jenkins-infra/documentation/blob/main/meetings/2021-05-04.md>,
>>>  Daniel Beck came with an interesting question.
>>> 
>>> Considering the proliferation of Google documents and other random tools to 
>>> take notes,
>>> shouldn't we consider bringing back Confluence?
>>> 
>>> While I am not convinced that a wiki is THE solution, I definitely share 
>>> his frustration.
>>> I feel we did a major step backward in terms of knowledge management across 
>>> the Jenkins project.
>>>  
>>> Nowadays, the default behavior is to create a Google document to take notes 
>>> during meetings or event organizations.
>>> This approach is very easy for synchronous collaboration but it also has 
>>> bad side effects. It's difficult to find old documents unless you 
>>> bookmarked them. And, documents lifecycle are affected by the "new" google 
>>> storage policy or corporate google accounts.
>>>     
>>> Historically, we used the wiki to take notes and write documentation. 
>>> https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS
>>> That central place was really convenient to share and find information 
>>> across community initiatives.
>>> 
>>> That being said, I didn't forget the reasons to move away from Confluence, 
>>> and here are some of them:
>>>     
>>> 1. Spammers, because of the nature of the Jenkins project we tend to 
>>> attract a lot of spammers. Then *someone* has to do some clean-up.
>>> 2. Maintaining confluence is a major distraction that nobody wants to do. 
>>> 3. Confluence in the current state is very slow mainly due to point 2 and 
>>> due to unfinished infrastructure work.
>>> 
>>> The two last elements could be solved by asking the Linux Foundation to 
>>> maintain Confluence. The same way they do for Jira 
>>> <https://issues.jenkins.io/>
>>> Also, it's worth keeping in mind that Atlassian is deprecating their 
>>> on-prem solution in 2024.
>>>     
>>> Several weeks ago, I started an experiment on the infrastructure project to 
>>> use hackmd.io to allow synchronous collaboration on meeting notes.
>>> During a meeting or a maintenance window, everybody can participate then at 
>>> the end of the meeting someone pushes the notes to a git repository like 
>>> https://github.com/jenkins-infra/documentation/#documentation
>>> To me it combines two approaches, it's as easy as a Google document to 
>>> collect notes and then we can easily store them on a git repository 
>>> directly in Markdown.
>>> Unfortunately, I am not convinced by the asynchronous collaboration 
>>> workflow.
>>> 
>>> There is a demo here - https://youtu.be/1s2Y3aPXTOI?t=126 (Sorry for the 
>>> poor video)
>>> 
>>> As I said it's an experiment, the purpose is to simplify synchronous 
>>> collaboration and then persist the content on a git repository that can 
>>> easily be browsed.
>>> 
>>> I would be curious to know your feeling about all of this and if you have 
>>> other suggestions.
>>>     
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> 

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