Moving this point to its own thread On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:03 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 17:30 -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: >> On 9/6/2011 13:43, Matt Richards wrote: >> > Well, I thought Terry has resigned from the project according to another >> > thread, leaving the wiki migration at a bit of a stand still. Figured I >> > could step in and pick up where he left off on this. Am I able to, as a >> > non-contributor reach out to Apache Infra on this (from what I read it >> > seems >> > the infra ML are for existing contributors only)? Not sure who all is >> > involved at this point. >> >> As Pedro commented, you don't need a newbie to help with the conversion. >> But in the long run, I volunteer to learn whatever is needed to support >> the MW system. All I have to offer is that I am a sysop on the live >> wiki, > > You have root level access to the current box in Hamburg? > > Thanks, >
Another option to consider is that of content translation: MediaWiki to Confluence. Remember. Confluence is fully supported by Apache Infra. We would also find a lot of people on the list who could help write and test wiki text conversion code. It is just string manipulation, right? How hard can that be? Even I can help with that. But seriously, the MW plans were always precarious. We did not have a deep bench of expertise on the sys admin side of that package. Even if we have a volunteer or two step in now, aren't we still rather thin? Wouldn't we still be one "life change" away from being back where we are now? But if we can figure out a content-level migration to Confluence wiki, then we would have something much more sustainable long term. Just an idea. -Rob
