Should we move from Confluence to Github Wiki?

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sasch...@gmail.com

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Apr 18, 2023, 4:16:14 AM4/18/23
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Hi all,

as we switched to Github Issues a while ago (thanks again Grzegorz), I was wondering about the Wikis (Confluence based at the moment). Should those be migrated over as well to have everything in one place?

Does anyone have any experience about migrating the pages? 

Greetings
.sascha

Grzegorz Grzybek

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Apr 18, 2023, 4:30:42 AM4/18/23
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Hello

When refactoring Pax Web I had plans to create proper gh-pages branch with deployable wiki/gh page. But you know how it is...
I never thought about direct migration of existing Confluence pages, because (that's my habit) I'd get stuck rewriting every page (they are in large part outdated...).

I'm not sure if "wiki" is enabled on GH sites for OPS4J pages - I can enable it if needed, but to be honest I don't have free cycles to work on it...

Anyway, big +1 for the idea ;)

regards
Grzegorz Grzybek

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sasch...@gmail.com

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Apr 18, 2023, 5:19:15 AM4/18/23
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Hi,

gr...@gmail.com schrieb am Dienstag, 18. April 2023 um 10:30:42 UTC+2:
When refactoring Pax Web I had plans to create proper gh-pages branch with deployable wiki/gh page. But you know how it is...
I never thought about direct migration of existing Confluence pages, because (that's my habit) I'd get stuck rewriting every page (they are in large part outdated...).
Well I would (as a first start) migrate everything as is (if it's automatic I can keep my OCD in place by just not looking at every page ;) ) - then (if it's the GH wiki) one can change it afterwards easily as one sees fit.
 
I'm not sure if "wiki" is enabled on GH sites for OPS4J pages - I can enable it if needed, but to be honest I don't have free cycles to work on it...
Yeah, I would try it out on one space and if the automatic script works well (enough) we could just go ahead and push it...  
 
Anyway, big +1 for the idea ;)
Thanks ;) 

sasch...@gmail.com

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Apr 18, 2023, 6:30:40 AM4/18/23
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I've created a sample for pax-exam (no tweaking done, just running a converter script): https://github.com/svogt/org.ops4j.pax.exam2/wiki 

Grzegorz Grzybek

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Apr 18, 2023, 7:09:34 AM4/18/23
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Looks good - formatting is nice and it's much easier now to review it and update ;)

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Grzegorz Grzybek

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Łukasz Dywicki

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Apr 18, 2023, 12:23:39 PM4/18/23
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Which confluence contents are we talking about?

Online tools are great, but I'd say the less we depend on them for documentation related areas, the better it is. Changes in pax web and transition to asciidoc was very valuable step. Ideally each "alive" ops4j project could do it. Do we have other repositories which require similar migration?

Best,
Łukasz

Matt Pavlovich

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Apr 18, 2023, 12:29:19 PM4/18/23
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+1 I like the idea of asciidoc and then having GitHub host the docs using GH Pages.

Grzegorz Grzybek

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Apr 18, 2023, 1:35:47 PM4/18/23
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+1 for adoc

That was my plan for Pax Web 8 too: https://github.com/ops4j/org.ops4j.pax.web/blob/main/todo.txt#L37 - see, still not `+`...

But ... I didn't have time to document everything. Definitely it's still in my plans thought.

kind regards
Grzegorz Grzybek

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