Zach <zach...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello X.Org Developers,
>
> I have been working on migrating the x.org/wiki/ to GitLab pages. The
> tracking issue is at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/80 and
> the current development branch is at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zachr/xorg-wiki/tree/hugo. You can see
> the pages rendered from ToT at
> https://zachr.pages.freedesktop.org/xorg-wiki/.
>
> As part of the migration process, I have converted the markdown flavor
> from ikiwiki to hugo using a custom script. Not everything in the old
> flavor can be replicated practically in the new flavor, so there will
> be junk in the converted pages, unfortunately. As we identify which of
> the approximately 1000 converted pages is actually seen by human eyes,
> we will fix the glitches.
>
> Additionally, I have designed a new theme which is aiming for
> accessibility and clarity. What you see on there isn't final, but is
> hopefully good enough.
>
> When the migration is done, the primary advantage will be much more
> streamlined edits by the community. Thanks to the hugo static site
> generator, editors will be able to render locally in under 1 second to
> verify that their change renders nicely. Getting their change
> published is a simple merge request, and then the site automatically
> gets rebuilt and published by GitLab. If all goes well, the entire
> process can be done in 5 minutes.
>
> Please let me know if you have any objections or questions about the 
> migration.

I'd love to see ikiwiki go away and have people be able to edit the wiki
inside gitlab (as well as work from a local clone).  Does your
conversion let people do things from a web ui, or do they have to do
offline generation to test things?

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