On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:07 AM, James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all > > Luke and I have been discussing the wiki and how its future development > might pan out. As a result I thought I'd canvas people for feedback. > > Currently the wiki's layout and structure is fairly ad hoc and it's a > mix of wiki mark-up and REStructured Text (RST). We'd like to make it > more "manual" like or at least move a significant portion of the > non-introductary material into a "manual" like format. >
I agree that the existing wiki is pretty hard to follow and find useful information. It might actually be helpful to coordinate a 'docathon' first and do a clean up of the existing data before making a decision about any further wiki changes (e.g., migrating to a different platform). > Some options and ideas: > > 1. Move the wiki from Trac to something else. Some options have been > proposed: > > a. Drupal - the book format (does not support RST though AFAIK) > b. MoinMoin (supports RST) > c. Redmine's internal wiki (requires parsing the RST - currently not > possible in Redmine) - as part of a migration to Redmine over Trac. > While many of the various CMS's are configurable, and can be made to do just about everything, I personally like the out-of-the-box look and feel of MediaWiki. It's defaults 'make sense'. > 2. Restructure the wiki in place on Trac > I'd not suggest that. > 3. Leave the wiki alone - it's perfect! > Nor would I suggest that. Steven --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
