[Scons-dev] SCons Wiki Status

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Just wanted to clarify the status of the wiki:
>
> SCons is moving the wiki off of moin and onto some other wiki system hosted
> an managed by someone else or to some static system we host that won't
> require this kind of attention going forward.

Do you have any variants? Because Bitbucket wiki is awful. I can't stand the
fonts and the density of text that they've chosen.

> The reasoning for this is that our hosting provider keeps taking the wiki
> offline as it has repeatedly been DOS'd and/or had it's security
> compromised.

This is FUD. We are running the latest version of MoinMoin. We need to
work with data. Killing all the customization work that has been done just
because our provider has faulty server is a bad approach. If there is security
issue, it should be forwarded to MoinMoin folks to fix other wiki installations.

> The project management doesn't see any benefit to maintaining
> our own at this point where there are so many great alternatives available.

"The Project Management of SCons Corporation INTL."  =)

> It may take a couple iterations to find the right solution so please be
> patient.
>
> For now you can find the FAQ on the bitbucket wiki for scons
> https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/FAQ
>
> I'll work on migrating pages from the old wiki to the new.

Which is the new?

> It may take a little time and the formatting my benefit from help from the
> community.

Do you mean doing all of this manually?

> If there is a page or pages you would like to see migrated quickly, please
> let me know and I'll try to prioritize them.

I am pretty sure there is a lot of wiki markup converters. We just need to
define what the target software is. I want online editing, subscribing to
pages and overall watch pages with bookmarks, customizable theme
with colors that I can see. Bitbucket doesn't have these features.
-- 
anatoly t.