Re: Problems about Apps/Template and Projects/Template

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 11:17 -0800, Christian Hergert wrote:
> On 12/04/2015 04:57 AM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> > * Last, but not least, some projects don't follow the template.
> > Closing
> > projects.gnome.org and moving the different web sites to the wiki
> > was
> > meant to have more consistency and be able to edit the content more
> > easily and by more people. Christian didn't follow the template for
> > gnome-builder, to have something more appealing for the fundraiser.
> > Then
> > other people have copied that. But the content is harder to edit,
> > it
> > uses some advanced features of MoinMoin. And it is not consistent
> > with
> > other projects pages.
> > Is it because the templates suck?
>
> It's true that the templates were not up to the quality I wanted for
> my
> fundraiser.
>
> I also find MoinMoin itself to be incredibly lacking. My personal
> preference would be for us to migrate our wiki to something that will
> be
> well supported for the next 10-15 years. Which likely means wiki
> software written/maintained by wikimedia... But this is a substantial
> amount of work.

One of the reasons why we didn't migrate in the past is that we were
unable to find a Wiki which supported some features used by the Board
(only by the Board) such as private hierarchies/pages.

It would probably be fine to move to another engine as long as it
either had the necessary features, or we kept MoinMoin for the Board.
But maintaining 2 different wikis engines...

> FWIW Builder is going to move it's primary landing page off of
> wiki.gnome.org so we can do something more immersive.

It really depends who you're building your "web page" for. For people
contributing to Builder, I would expect a Wiki to be fine. If it's
about advertising the application, then it's certainly a good idea to
move to something less restrictive.

Cheers