Karl Berry wrote: > Bob, Michael, John, Ineiev, anyone - Hi Karl!
> So, about getting ikiwiki installed, so the savannah documentation wiki > can be updated again and we can move forward. Yes. This task has been hanging out for a while now. I was out of commission for a while. But then afterward hadn't gotten back into working through the todo list. Sorry about that. Things are looking pretty good again for me though so I am ready to be involved again. > Presumably it has to be installed on frontend, just as zope is now. Yes. It would install on frontend. > Is there a Debian package for ikiwiki under Debian 6[.0]? (Which is > what frontend is running.) Or is installing it from the original > source the way to go? Yes. There is a Debian package for ikiwiki. I haven't yet gone through a complete installation and use of ikiwiki anywhere yet though. Therefore I am still missing some knowledge myself about how ikiwiki works. Since ikiwiki is a wiki compiler it isn't quite as simple as doing an apt-get install ikiwki and having that be enough. I think if I had installed it elsewhere already then I would know the details well enough to proceed. I think that for someone knowledgeable in it that it really is as simple as installing the package and then pointing Apache to it. > I imagine we will need subversion installed on frontend too -- at least > I can't imagine any viable way to use the svn on the download vhost, nor > does it even seem particularly desirable to me. Having installed svn > from original source for many years, I'm pretty sure that using the > Debian svn package will be the path of least resistance there :). I know you are not a fan of git but the path of least resistance would be to use git for the ikiwiki backend. And probably in either case it would be to vcs.savannah for the source repository. This seems to me to be one of the best features of ikiwiki. It uses a vcs as a backend. Therefore in addition to making changes using the web interface it is also possible for people with commit access to make changes using the vcs backend directly. That is you can check out the source files of the wiki and make changes and commit them and the changes appears on the wiki. Plus it means that it avoids the black box backend of most of the other wikis. Backup and restore is the same as backup and restore of any other source repository. Which would save us from the problems Savannah had with the previous wiki. > I don't have much Debian experience. Help? I don't see ikiwiki setup being Debian specific. I just haven't installed and configured ikiwiki myself. For me I need to install it someplace in a scratch area and try it before doing it on the production Savannah. Has anyone on the list set up ikiwiki before? Can I get a tutorial? I have test servers available to play with so that we can work through the issues. Otherwise I will plan on setting up a victim test installation where folks here can play with it and then we will all "learn through it" together. Bob
