[Fwd: Re: GnuCash pages on gnomesupport.org wiki]

[Christian Stimming]

The reply of the gnomesupport.org wiki maintainer. Basically says that 
we should make up our mind -- and if we do move to our own wiki server, 
he will most probably shut down the gnomesupport.org wiki completely.

Christian

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Betreff: Re: GnuCash pages on gnomesupport.org wiki
Datum: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:21:59 -0500
Von: Luke Stroven <stro at gnomedesktop.org>
An: Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>
Referenzen: <438C2787.2000805 at tuhh.de>

Hello Christian,

The wiki really doesn't get much usage, other than its usage by the
GNUCash Team. If you need it then I will surely keep it running. If the
GNUCash project were to migrate away from it then I would most likely
shut it down leaving a message holder in its place stating that I would
resurrect it if enough people committed to tending it, and building it.
I myself barely have enough time to check it for spam every several
days. (You actually spend more time keeping it clean than I do).

I am very much committed to keeping gnomesupport.org running and keeping
the forums running. But signal to noise ratio on the wiki is high, and
the wiki tends to take more time and is more difficult to keep clean
compared to gnomedesktop.org and the forums on gnomesupport.org.

So if you would like to keep using the wiki, feel free to do so. If wish
to migrate to your own wiki system, let me know when you have finished
the migration.

Thanks,
Luke


On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:03 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Hi Stro,
> 
> as you know, gnucash has quite a lot of pages on the gnomesupport.org 
> wiki. It almost seems that there isn't much other content except for the 
> gnucash pages. Nevertheless it was and is a great opportunity for the 
> gnucash project to simply use and populate that wiki, so that both users 
> can benefit from the information and developers can benefit from not 
> having to care about any wiki setup.
> 
> As it turns out, gnucash had some major restructuring of the host 
> servers. E.g. we switched from CVS to SVN and added the Trac web 
> interface to SVN http://svn.gnucash.org/trac . During this transition it 
> turns out that the Trac software also comes with a wiki. The gnucash 
> project is now discussing whether we use that wiki (or any similar) on 
> our own server instead of using the gnomesupport.org wiki. The point is 
> that the project needs a wiki, but we can and should maintain only one. 
> We have the choice to either continue with the gnomesupport.org wiki or 
> alternatively move all gnucash content to our own server and continue on 
> our own server.
> 
> What are your plans with gnomesupport.org? You haven't been that active 
> there recently, so I wonder what you long-term plans are. In case you 
> were considering dropping this wiki altogether, then for gnucash this 
> would be fine right now. But in case you are still intending to maintain 
> the gnomesupport.org wiki as a place for user information in the long 
> run, would you rather like the gnucash content to be kept there? That 
> would also be very convenient and nice for us. What do you think?
> 
> Christian (cstim)
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