On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2011, at 5:00 PM, Matt Richards wrote: > >> One lurking question (suppose its also a decision) is content wise is there >> a plan to transition the content on the current OO.org wiki over >> to confluence? I'm gathering there are some licensing/community related >> issues with doing so. But it seems kind of redundant/confusing to have two >> wikis for one project. I thought OOOUsers would contain similar information >> to what is now on the OpenOffice.org wiki? > > The OOOUsers CWiki was created when the project started Apache Incubation so > that we could have a Wiki and start planning. The community has an > understandable preference for MediaWiki. Terry E appeared later and has been > doing the extremely heavy lifting of both the OOo wiki and user forums to > Apache Infrastructure. Assuming this the final transition occurs then I think > it is likely that the current OOOUsers CWiki will be converted to either the > migrated OOo MediaWiki or webpages for the project site. >
You are exactly correct. OOOUsers is transitional, mainly used for collaborative planning, including planning for how to bring things like the OOo MediaWiki instance over. It was part of the project's bootstrapping. > Sorry for the transitional confusion. Choose which wiki you prefer for now. > > Of course, this is only my opinion and others might disagree. > > Regards, > Dave > >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> [I am *intentionally* breaking this thread off of the building OOo one] >>> >>> The OpenOffice.org wiki version reachable on Apache OOo is a test instance >>> and has not been kept synchronized with the OpenOffice.org "master" as far >>> as I know. Changes there will be lost when we do a production cut-over. >>> (We have not staged a cut-over and staging is not defined yet.) It is a >>> MediaWiki though. >>> >>> If you have updates that would work on the OpenOffice.org instance, I >>> recommend that you make them there. >>> >>> If you want to help with the definition and staging of the cut-over, it >>> might be useful to record your thoughts on OOOUSER in conjunction with Kay >>> Schenk's matrix at M >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OOo-to-ASF-site-recommendation >>>> . >>> >>> Finally, at the hands-on level, I believe Terry would welcome more >>> assistance. >>> >>> You wouldn't happen to know how to administer and preserve the OO.o Mailing >>> List system would you? [Private joke [;<) but I wish it weren't] >>> >>> - Dennis >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Matt Richards [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 13:49 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice? >>> >>> Now that I've built OpenOffice on Linux with moderate success, I'd like to >>> lend a helping hand with the documentation side of things. As far as I am >>> aware, the existing (maybe old now) wiki has been migrated to Apache Infra >>> (via VM). Does this content need to be moved to the confluence wikis >>> eventually? I do apologies if this is off topic, there's been so much >>> discussion going on proving difficult to follow everything all the way >>> through. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> --Matt > >
