Hello everybody, So, I've used MoinMoin for years. I've advocated it at all my workplaces, and each time, my boss and other employees ended up finding it great and very useful.
So that's what I did at my new work last year. I installed MoinMoin 1.5.something from Debian-stable. I whipped up a couple of pages and showed it to everybody. People slowly adopted the wiki. I managed to get them to stop sharing information files through Sharepoint, and to take some time to learn the MoinMoin syntax and make their own pages. Eventually they all did. They all invested a lot of effort into making their pages, especially considering they aren't computer folks at all. We collectively made hundreds of pages, choke full of attachments, links to websites, internal files, other wiki pages and whatnot. We all took care of making our pages properly formatted and legible. Today, I upgraded the MoinMoin installation to version 1.7.1 because I wanted to try TaskPlanner, and all hell broke loose. All our pages are messed up. A bit of Googling revealed that the syntax has changed quite extensively. No matter I thought, MoinMoin is a mature, quality piece of code, surely there's a "legacy syntax" setting somewhere so our pages made with the old syntax work again. Well, none that I can find it turns out. And here I am, looking at 2 or 3 days of reformatting of our pages, my colleagues asking why the heck their hard work is all ruined, and my boss breathing down my neck, asking me why he's paying me to fix something that worked great before instead of doing my work, and why everybody else's workflow is stalled. Please tell me there's a setting to reuse all our work, or some script to convert it to the new format quickly, otherwise I'm about to look like a right knucklehead with my technical recommendations. I can't believe the people who made the MoinMoin I know and like didn't care about backward compatibility at least a little bit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
