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

[Derek Atkins]

To me this sounds like we should take over the wiki ourselves
so he can stop spending time on it.  

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> 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
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> 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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