Pedro has already gone over to check with Infrastructure about doing a test.
Erasing other things I started to say. Maybe I'll be more positive tomorrow. I'm rather exhausted by today's emails. Regards, Dave On Sep 6, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Moving this point to its own thread > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:03 PM, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> 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
