Hi! As you may know Python 2.7 will reach end of life at the end of the year. Moinmoin wiki will not work before some times under Python 3 and therefore we have to chose between keeping outdated code or leaving Moinmoin. A lot of our infrastructure and scripts rely on Moinmoin and will need to be rewritten if moving away, but maybe it's not that much work. Now what should we replace it with? I was inclined to use Dokuwiki as it is lightweight and very supported. We also used it in other projects making me more or less familiar with it. I know a few member of our community are also using moinmoin. What will you be doing? What do you suggest? How do you easily convert old moinmoin pages into plain html? Do you import all the users or let people create new accounts when they need? We would be happy to hear from you. Thank you. Fred
Hi Fred, Some days go there was a discussion about MoinMoin used in wiki.debian.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2019/10/msg00037.html Paul Wise from www team said: "We will revisit the decision when the time comes since Python 2.7 and MoinMoin 1 still have a number of years of security support in Debian stable and LTS, but if we have to, we will evaluate MoinMoin 2 before getting it into Debian and before potentially using it. I expect it is probably more stable than what the label says." Best regards, On 27/11/2019 06:16, Frederic Muller - DFF wrote:
Hi!
As you may know Python 2.7 will reach end of life at the end of the year. Moinmoin wiki will not work before some times under Python 3 and therefore we have to chose between keeping outdated code or leaving Moinmoin.
A lot of our infrastructure and scripts rely on Moinmoin and will need to be rewritten if moving away, but maybe it's not that much work.
Now what should we replace it with? I was inclined to use Dokuwiki as it is lightweight and very supported. We also used it in other projects making me more or less familiar with it.
I know a few member of our community are also using moinmoin. What will you be doing? What do you suggest? How do you easily convert old moinmoin pages into plain html? Do you import all the users or let people create new accounts when they need?
We would be happy to hear from you.
Thank you.
Fred
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Hi! Dokuwiki is easy to setup. How easy would the content migration be? Localwiki (https://localwiki.org https://github.com/localwiki/localwiki/releases) has nice mapping features, but last release was 6 years ago. It seems very user friendly though. There are a couple migration articles online: https://peterlyons.com/problog/2011/01/moinmoin_to_giti/ (Gitit is under active development, https://github.com/jgm/gitit but written in Haskell) https://dev.w3.org/2008/moinmoin2mediawiki/README.html An alternative might be to use a static site generator with Gitlab or Github, though mapping may require a little more work. Regards, Benson On 11/27/19 7:26 PM, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote:
Hi Fred,
Some days go there was a discussion about MoinMoin used in wiki.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2019/10/msg00037.html
Paul Wise from www team said: "We will revisit the decision when the time comes since Python 2.7 and MoinMoin 1 still have a number of years of security support in Debian stable and LTS, but if we have to, we will evaluate MoinMoin 2 before getting it into Debian and before potentially using it. I expect it is probably more stable than what the label says."
Best regards,
On 27/11/2019 06:16, Frederic Muller - DFF wrote:
Hi!
As you may know Python 2.7 will reach end of life at the end of the year. Moinmoin wiki will not work before some times under Python 3 and therefore we have to chose between keeping outdated code or leaving Moinmoin.
A lot of our infrastructure and scripts rely on Moinmoin and will need to be rewritten if moving away, but maybe it's not that much work.
Now what should we replace it with? I was inclined to use Dokuwiki as it is lightweight and very supported. We also used it in other projects making me more or less familiar with it.
I know a few member of our community are also using moinmoin. What will you be doing? What do you suggest? How do you easily convert old moinmoin pages into plain html? Do you import all the users or let people create new accounts when they need?
We would be happy to hear from you.
Thank you.
Fred
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Hey! Yes Dokuwiki is rather straight forward. Now we were thinking to archive past content like we did with pages before 2009, probably transferring everything into static html files and having all new content under Dokuwiki. The question is now how to replicated some of the convenient features of Moinmoin into Dokuwiki or maybe doing without them. I found templating very convenient. Dokuwiki has some similar features but they don't work exactly the same. We could also work without them. We could (and we need to) also rewrite the whole registration application to improve the way it's working and then maybe we don't need such as smart wiki anymore. As Paulo mentioned, it's true that being under a LTS means security fixes will still come for a few years and so many the move is not so urgent. I still feel it is better to start thinking about it and finding ways else we'll easily miss the EOL deadline. We'll take a look at the links you provided and see how this could fit our current issues. In the meantime should you have more feedback we'd be happy to hear about it. Thank you. Fred On 11/30/19 10:44 AM, Benson Muite wrote:
Hi!
Dokuwiki is easy to setup. How easy would the content migration be?
Localwiki (https://localwiki.org https://github.com/localwiki/localwiki/releases) has nice mapping features, but last release was 6 years ago. It seems very user friendly though.
There are a couple migration articles online:
https://peterlyons.com/problog/2011/01/moinmoin_to_giti/
(Gitit is under active development, https://github.com/jgm/gitit but written in Haskell)
https://dev.w3.org/2008/moinmoin2mediawiki/README.html
An alternative might be to use a static site generator with Gitlab or Github, though mapping may require a little more work.
Regards,
Benson
On 11/27/19 7:26 PM, Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote:
Hi Fred,
Some days go there was a discussion about MoinMoin used in wiki.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2019/10/msg00037.html
Paul Wise from www team said: "We will revisit the decision when the time comes since Python 2.7 and MoinMoin 1 still have a number of years of security support in Debian stable and LTS, but if we have to, we will evaluate MoinMoin 2 before getting it into Debian and before potentially using it. I expect it is probably more stable than what the label says."
Best regards,
On 27/11/2019 06:16, Frederic Muller - DFF wrote:
Hi!
As you may know Python 2.7 will reach end of life at the end of the year. Moinmoin wiki will not work before some times under Python 3 and therefore we have to chose between keeping outdated code or leaving Moinmoin.
A lot of our infrastructure and scripts rely on Moinmoin and will need to be rewritten if moving away, but maybe it's not that much work.
Now what should we replace it with? I was inclined to use Dokuwiki as it is lightweight and very supported. We also used it in other projects making me more or less familiar with it.
I know a few member of our community are also using moinmoin. What will you be doing? What do you suggest? How do you easily convert old moinmoin pages into plain html? Do you import all the users or let people create new accounts when they need?
We would be happy to hear from you.
Thank you.
Fred
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