From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J.H." Subject: Re: [RFC] Git Wiki Move Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:52:35 -0800 Message-ID: <4B4F67F3.8000202@eaglescrag.net> References: <20100113232908.GA3299@machine.or.cz> <20100114012449.GB3299@machine.or.cz> <4B4EF1E0.3040808@eaglescrag.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Petr Baudis , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 14 19:52:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVUoM-0003YM-S1 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:52:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757022Ab0ANSwo (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:52:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755143Ab0ANSwo (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:52:44 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:51752 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753879Ab0ANSwn (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:52:43 -0500 Received: from voot-cruiser.eaglescrag.net (c-71-202-189-206.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.202.189.206]) (authenticated bits=0) by shards.monkeyblade.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0EIqZZ3007432 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:52:35 -0800 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at shards.monkeyblade.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:52:35 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 01/14/2010 02:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, J.H. wrote: > >> On 01/13/2010 05:24 PM, Petr Baudis wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: >>>> I would like to notify you that unfortunately, Czech UPC terminated >>>> the sponsorship of the hardware and connectivity hosting the Git Wiki >>>> and repo.or.cz (after generously donating it for several years). >>> >>> ...please scratch the Git Wiki part, you would be supporting just >>> repo.or.cz - we are considering to move the Git wiki to >>> wiki.kernel.org MediaWiki installation and I would like to ask if >>> anyone disagrees with this. The motivation is that: >>> >>> (i) wiki.kernel.org is actually maintained! Thus, there should be >>> less spam or upgrade issues and better support in case of problems. >>> >>> (ii) Also, I personally think MediaWiki is so much nicer than >>> ikiwiki... > > ... not to mention than MoinMoin... > >>> (iii) ...and OBTW, no CamelCase! >>> >>> Of course, there will be compatibility redirects. >> >> Just a heads up I've got an initial import of the current wiki up at >> http://git.wiki.kernel.org - some of it was quite a clean conversion, >> some of it not so much. > > Did you use a script? And did you leech the sources, or did you get a > dump? Used a conversion script form a dump from Petr, needless to say it wa sthe one generally recommended by mediawiki and even their commentary on it was "It's the least bad" basically > I note that "<<(2)>>" could be converted to "__TOC__", > I believe. I'll have to go in behind and track those down, should be easy enough to find / fix. >> Please note that user accounts were not carried over but edit histories >> were. > > IIUC there are no email addresses stored in the Git Wiki, so I think that > we'll have to live with that. You might get the occasional complaint of a > stolen account. I'm fine with dealing with those on an individual basis, and it would be good for people to re-create their accounts as soon as possible. >> I'll work on cleaning up the rest of if tomorrow, assuming that there >> isn't any objections to Petr's e-mail above. > > I like it. Especially since there is a fun project waiting for me to > get some time to do it, to convert the full history of a MediaWiki > instance into a Git repository. Maybe via the git-remote* mechanism, once > Sverre and Ilari manage to flush out the last remnants of clumsy design. Now you've got a solid wiki to work with that's pertinent ;-) - John 'Warthog9' Hawley