Announcing the new wiki.list.org
I am very happy to announce our new wiki!
If you go to wiki.list.org you will see our shiny new Moin-based wiki. We are retiring the old Confluence-based wiki at the end of February. Until then, you can access it at old-wiki.list.org.
Our very huge thanks go to Paul Boddie who did the amazing conversion work, almost single-handedly reverse engineering the Confluence dump through several iterations. Of course, our thanks also go to John Viega, owner of the list.org domain and Mailman's inventor for helping us get the DNS flipped over. Thanks too to everyone who gave feedback on the new wiki, contributed to the old wiki, and continue to help edit this important resource for the Mailman community.
Our thanks also go to the Python Software Foundation and the PSF infrastructure team for providing us with the virtual machine hosting our new wiki.
If you had write access to the old wiki and want it again for the new wiki, you will have to re-submit a request to mailman-cabal@python.org. Please be sure to register with wiki.list.org and provide us with your user name.
With this conversion, I am happy to say that GNU Mailman is finally fully hosted on free software. While we appreciate the years of service donated to us by Atlassian and Contegix, it's important that we set an example by utilizing an entirely free software stack for our development and outreach. The wiki was our last remaining non-free bits.
Let the gardening begin!
Cheers, -Barry (On behalf of the GNU Mailman steering committee)
P.S. We are working on the SSL certificate for the new wiki. Stay tuned.
On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
If you had write access to the old wiki and want it again for the new wiki, you will have to re-submit a request to mailman-cabal@python.org. Please be sure to register with wiki.list.org and provide us with your user name.
Paul reminds me that we did copy over the user accounts from the old wiki, but obviously not the passwords. You should be able to do a password reset on the new wiki to recover your account. Do let us know if you have any problems with this.
Sumana and I also talked about theming recently. Both the web site and wiki could use an update (and I have thoughts about that) but in the meantime it would be nice if the wiki were themed closer to the website. If you have an interest in this, please contact mailman-developers@python.org.
Cheers, -Barry
Barry Warsaw wrote:
Sumana and I also talked about theming recently. Both the web site and wiki could use an update (and I have thoughts about that) but in the meantime it would be nice if the wiki were themed closer to the website. If you have an interest in this, please contact mailman-developers at python.org.
With much thanks to Jim Tittsler, we now have a 'mailman' theme for wiki.list.org that is very similar in look and feel to www.list.org. As of now, the 'mailman' theme is the default theme for new users and is the theme for non-logged-in users.
If you registered before now or had your registration imported from the old Confluence wiki, your theme defaulted to the standard MoinMoin 'modernized' theme, but all users have a choice of several themes including the 'mailman' theme on their Settings -> Preferences page.
The Mailman wiki (http://wiki.list.org/%3E has been getting some much needed attention lately. In addition to the additions and cleaning up http://wiki.list.org/RecentChanges that has been and is still going on, there have been a couple of software changes since the initial move to MoinMoin.
The wiki was initially running on the Ubuntu python-moinmoin 1.9.7-1ubuntu2 package. It is now running on the MoinMoin 1.9.8 source distribution.
There is a change log at http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/1.9.8/docs/CHANGES, but we don't know which if any of the changes might have been backported in the Ubuntu package, and we don't know what Ubuntu package specific things we might have undone.
Noticeable changes at this point include a choice of the text or the GUI editor where previously only the text editor was offered (you can change this in your preferences) and a few bug fixes.
The wiki is also now being served through mod_wsgi which may result in faster response, but probably won't be noticeable.
Otherwise, the wiki should be working the same as it has been since the initial move to MoinMoin five weeks ago.
Barry Warsaw, 26/01/2015 16:10:
Our very huge thanks go to Paul Boddie who did the amazing conversion work, almost single-handedly reverse engineering the Confluence dump through several iterations.
Hurray! Well done. Can you publish the dump somewhere on your site, or on archive.org? WikiTeam is very interested in Confluence dumps, any writing/braindump/code on the matter is very welcome. https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/issues/108
With this conversion, I am happy to say that GNU Mailman is finally fully hosted on free software.
Again great.
Nemo
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