Re: Announcing the slow burial of the Hurd Wiki

[Joachim Nilsson]

On 8/11/06, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:02:53PM +0200, Ernst Rohlicek jun. wrote:
> > From my perspective, I wanted to register for an account over a week
> > ago and didn't get an activation reply so far ... besides, some info
> > is outdated (2G limit?!) and the TWiki is from 2002 if I'm correct.
> Thomas Schwinge has been working on finding a replacement for the wiki,
> but he is on vacation currently and will be back in September.

OK, sounds good.

In the mean time I'll try to get some time off to do the manual
actiavtion of new accounts. (It's a bit of a pain since a lot of them
are bogus spam-bot registrations, which is the reason this manual step
was needed in the first place).

> > I would also be willing to offer hosting and maintenance for it (if
> > the Gnufans domain is taken care of).
> Duck has also offered hosting, that should not be a problem.
> What might help is getting a dump/backup of the current gnufans wiki so
> we can restore/integrate it with whatever wiki we are going to use.

As I've said in a previous post I'm willing to take the time out to
make that dump whenever there's a commitment from the community of
people using it and a solid host that can handle the job.  It's a lot
of work keeping a wiki this visible free from spam.

> Plus, does anybody know of plans for Savannah to supply wikis to its
> projects?

That would be the best thing IMHO, but wiki documentation has
traditionally not been seen as a, how should I put it, "kosher/halal"
form of documentation. But that is just my personal impression.

Regards
/Jocke