Re: [Evolution-hackers] go-evolution.org

[Chenthill <pchenthill novell com>]

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:25 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:32 +0530, Chenthill wrote:
> > 	The archived contents would be eventually moved to
> > www.gnome.org/projects/evolution . Time-line for the same is not yet
> > decided. Until then the contents would remain in go-evolution.org.
> 
> Okay, so what does moving wiki contents to a non-wiki website mean
> exactly?  Do we snapshot all the pages and copy the static HTML?  And if
> we do that, how do we find archived wiki pages without the wiki's search
> feature?  I guess we'd have to set up a global index page or something?
Yes copying the static html. Manual work might be required. We should be
having indexes like we have already at,
http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/developer.shtml .

> 
> Another option, perhaps only for the short-term, might be to just lock
> down go-evolution.org so no new accounts, pages, or edits are possible.
> That should preserve the search feature, and also solve the spam
> problem, no?
Possible. We still need get the admin right for that. Nirav ?

> 
> On a different note, now that we've decided to move we need to compile a
> list of which pages to move.  How about we set up a wiki page for that
> and invite both developers and the community (or at least the evo-list
> subscribers) to add what wiki pages they'd like to see moved.  Set a
> deadline of, say, end of August?
Lets first gather the contents to be migrated to lgo and
gnome.org/projects/evolution. This will give us an idea to choose a
right dead-line along with individuals for the tasks.

> 
> On a third note, anyone know of a good MediaWiki-to-MoinMoin syntax
> conversion program?  My Google results have yielded mostly conversion
> scripts in the opposite direction (MoinMoin-to-MediaWiki), or else
> software that requires admin access to the MoinMoin database.
I searched for it sometime back. I did find scripts to convert form
moinmoin-to-mediawiki but not vice-versa :( May be a question on pgo
might help to find if anyone else knows ?

- Chenthill.
> 
> Matthew Barnes