On 11 Mar 2011, at 11:20, Ross Gardler wrote:

> The ASF is phasing out supporting CWiki [1] as a method for managing public 
> websites and we've never done a good job of managing the export from CWiki 
> anyway.
> 
> I've taken the liberty of starting our migration to the new Apache CMS.

Great! Thanks for doing this. 

> This has a number of advantages:
> 
> - we can edit the site using a basic web interface or offline via SVN 
> committs/patches
> 
> - we can use the CWiki as a true wiki, i.e. open public access again
> 
> - we get more support from the infra team
> 
> To learn more about the CMS and why the ASF has moved this way and what the 
> CMS looks like see [2]
> 
> To see what people have been doing, including migration scripts from CWiki 
> see [3]
> 
> For some basic info on how to use it see [4]
> 
> For reference material on the Markdown syntax used see [5]
> 
> We now need to create our pages at [6] (svn) or via the CMS [7]. I propose 
> rewriting the pages from scratch. We are not very well structured right now, 
> but we do have a reasonable amount of content. I suggest this is a good 
> opportunity for creating a better structure.

I think thats a good idea, we've outgrown our structure, but I think the 
content is getting there.

> 
> Help appreciated.
> 

> Ross
> 
> [1] http://markmail.org/thread/rc6xefjrc26udbub
> [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
> [3] http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheCms2010
> [4] http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-site.html
> [5] http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html
> [6] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wookie/site/trunk/
> [7] https://cms.apache.org/wookie/

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