Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: killing mediawiki

[William Hubbs]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 01:47:19PM -0400, Brian Evans wrote:
> On 7/3/2018 1:39 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > some of us have talked about this on IRC off and on, but I want to bring
> > it up here as well.
> >
> > I don't care that we have a wiki, but can we please look into killing
> > mediawiki and look at something with a git backend? It would be very
> > nice to be able to edit wiki pages in markdown or another similar format
> > and use git to control the changes instead of editing in a browser.
> >
>
> For what purpose? The Handbook? No objections to that as it is limited
> access already. We just go back to what we were doing in CVS.

We should definitely use git not cvs. :p
We don't have to go back to what we were doing in cvs,.

There are wikis out there such as gollum, gitit and ikiwiki to name a
few, which allow full access to the content via vcs [1].

William

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8255749/wikis-with-vcs-backends