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From: Jason Smith <jason.h.smith@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:45:21 +0700
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Switching wiki to Confluence
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I would also prefer that the wiki run on free software; however if we had a
decent import/export feature I would be satisfied.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@gmail.com>wrote:

> Like said Dave this has been discussed in may. I have no strong opinion on
> that. Apart the speed which is quite relative to the location where you
> live maybe we should also take in consideration the fact that moinmoin is
> quite more open than confluence is ie  I don't need to ask a license (eve
> free) to use it. Also not sure about the syntax as well.
>
> Since we are using Jira also written by Atlassian that may not a problem
> though.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> - benoit
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > We're moving the docs to the source, which is great!
> >
> > However, we still have some stuff that we wanna keep on the wiki for now:
> >
> >  * Weekly news (not started yet)
> >  * Merge procedure
> >  * Release procedure
> >  * Release preparation
> >  * Test procedure
> >  * Committer election process
> >  * PMC election process
> >  * Community guide
> >  * Roadmap process
> >  * Board reports
> >  * Board report guide
> >  * Code of conduct
> >  * PMC charter
> >  * By-laws
> >  * Marketing guide
> >  * CouchDB vision stuff
> >
> > Um. Probably more stuff. That's just stuff I am interested in working on.
> > Anyway, this is all project-level stuff. Doesn't belong on the homepage,
> > doesn't belong in the manual.
> >
> > I've been editing the wiki more and more recently, and I gotta tell you:
> > it's a bag of shit. I mean really, I pressed "submit" on a change about
> 20
> > seconds before sending this email, and I'm still writing this email, and
> > the page is still loading.
> >
> > I dunno if any of you have had any experience with the wiki recently, but
> > it's been this slow for months. And I am not confident it's gonna get any
> > better.
> >
> > For that reason, I keep thinking about moving to Confluence. I'm not sure
> > how much work is involved in that. Perhaps people wanna help out?
> >
> > Might be a nice opportunity to clear out the stuff that is in Moin, that
> we
> > don't want there any more, because it's in the docs. (i.e. We just
> wouldn't
> > move it over.)
> >
> > If you don't regularly edit the wiki, I'm hoping you wont mind the
> proposed
> > move. As I say, as someone who is using it fairly regularly, it is
> causing
> > me a lot of problems.
> >
> > (Though, I really don't need to be adding work to my plate. Perhaps
> someone
> > else would be interested in moving the content over? Eugh.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Noah Slater
> > https://twitter.com/nslater
> >
>

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