From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J.H." Subject: Re: [RFC] Git Wiki Move Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:56:40 -0800 Message-ID: <4B4F68E8.5050809@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: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 14 19:58:10 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 1NVUsH-0006CU-6E for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:56:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755307Ab0ANS4t (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:56:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756801Ab0ANS4s (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:56:48 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:51788 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755087Ab0ANS4s (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:56:48 -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 o0EIueME007835 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:56:40 -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 10:56:41 -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 02:35 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > "J.H." writes: > >> 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. Please note that user accounts were not carried >> over but edit histories were. I'll work on cleaning up the rest of if >> tomorrow, assuming that there isn't any objections to Petr's e-mail >> above. > > My only objection would be "Oh, migrating to another wiki engine will > be much conversion work", but if you're willing to do it ;-). It unfortunately goes with the territory, though I'll admit the Moinmoin -> Mediawiki was the first conversion I've seen where even Mediawiki said: There are a number of hacky scripts for this. They are all defective in various ways - anyone who does this job does it precisely once, so there's no-one who really maintains a good converter script. > This page seems to be an interesting test-case: > http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq > full of miss-imported formatting, links, ... That's not actually the worst, http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitRelatedLogos even after I've cleaned up a chunk of it is still pretty bad. - John 'Warthog9' Hawley