Hi all,
I will try to be short and to the point (also because I have limited time to
handle this), but just in case...
TL;DR: the wiki¹ will become a static, read-only archive available at
the same
old URLs. Pages that are still active (release notes, extensions, etc.) will
live in the new website.
Now for the longer version:
# Why the wiki has to go
The wiki has long been more of a thorn in Mercurial's side than a
helpful asset:
- it is attacked by spammers
- it has *very* out of date information
- it uses extremely old software which is insecure and requires
insecure
dependencies
- it serves a questionable usefulness to the project in its current
state
- it is hard to discover
- it makes the project look abandoned
# How it will go
To this end, here is the plan:
- make the wiki read-only
- back up the raw wiki data just in case
- make a list of still active pages (~15 of them)
- release notes
- news
- extension pages
- contribution guides
- MissingRequirement is also important
- redirect their old URLs to their new version
- move those pages to the new website as urgency demands, but not
necessarily immediately
- new developer plans (*Plan) pages will become issues in the Heptapod
issue tracker² (another email will follow about this)
- new sprint pages will be issues/framaforms
- setup a static archive like what we have for phab³
- remove the wiki software
# The future
From then on, changes will be made through merge requests on the hg-website
repo⁴, using Heptapod issues as an alternative for asking for changes as
well.
If a page hasn't been ported over to the new site and you feel like it
should,
feel free to ask and contribute.
This will make it much easier to keep track of what's being said on our
domain,
sets up a review process for "untrusted" people, and basically kills off
what
makes a wiki a wiki. It is my strong opinion (and it was at least shared
with
all the people I've talked to over the years) that the wiki has no use
in our
project now that we live in the era of forges.
If anyone has a strong objection to killing off the wiki format, we can
discuss
setting up a wiki using the feature in Heptapod, but I very much doubt its
usefulness.
I will make the wiki read-only right after sending this email and get to
work.
Thanks,
Raphaël
[1] https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org
[2] https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel/-/issues/10000
[3] https://phab.mercurial-scm.org
[4] https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/hg-website
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