Hello, 

> 1. The authentication mechanism would have to be something less 
> secure, less open, and more centralized than PGP-signed git 
> commits/tags. 
>

I am not sure what you mean by that. As far as I understand the current 
solution requires GitHub to be able to contribute to the qubes-doc repo. 

PGP-signed git commit/tags would be still available in Gollum, since Gollum 
uses Git as storage system for wikipages. Gollum pulls the history from
the git repository (see above gollum-history.png of the archlinux article).

Every time you edit and save a page Gollum does all the git commit etc. 
commands for you. That is the big advantage of Gollum.

Gollum itself does not provide any kind of authentication. Authentication 
could be provided through third parties like Github.
 

>
> 2. We would have to pay for a server to host this. We can't afford 
> that. By contrast, GitHub Pages + Cloudflare is free. Someone will 
> probably also have to take time away from other work to administer the 
> server when things inevitably go wrong. 
>

Gollum can also produce static sites.

Do you use GH-Pages or Cloudflare?


> 3. The functionality looks largely the same as what GitHub already 
> provides. (If users want special functionality that only Gollum 
> provides, or want it locally, they can install it locally as you just 
> did.) 
>  


Maybe.

I intention was more to show that there is a solution for some of the 
problems the 
initiator of this thread was recognizing. 

In addition my small experiment went surprisingly well,
so I wanted to share it with you.

Best regards
  J. Eppler


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