Moin Ulrich,

Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:17:24 +0000 From: "Ulrich B." <UlrichB@posteo.de> To: moin-devel@python.org Subject: [moin-devel] moin2 release with core functionality Message-ID: <f81501a5-7aa3-1d96-68c7-030808069de8@posteo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

Hello,

many owners of a moin 1.9 wiki are waiting for a moin replacement based on Python3. If we limit the functionality of moin2 to the core features of moin1.9, IMO it should be possible to move to beta status or even better create a release candidate. For example, we can allow moinwiki markup and disable all other markup languages in the default configuration. They will then be treated as experimental.

I would prefer a feature freeze, there can still be much improved. But that's always the case. In that freeze a common set of the whole scope may be defined stable and the rest experimental.

Wiki owners can test if they can migrate their wiki data to moin2. This could be an option to get more people interested in the development and to push the release of moin2.

That is currently my situation. I am also aware that a lot of my plugins won't work with an update. And the time span where I can upgrade those gets also limited by deleting py 2.7 from LTS distributions. I have also to think about "what comes next after the wiki idea". I assume any old user is in a similar situation. The most important question is. Is it good enough to try for the moment? If it is, please get into a semantic release cycle starting with moin-2.0,0 as soon as possible. With a release instead of working with a repository are also steps of "doings" for others defined. In semantic versioning I would know that I have to verify and refactor something again, with the next major. For my users it would mean as long as we have only minor or patch level releases they can work similiar as they learned with the first change to moin-2.0.0. best regards Reimar

What is your opinion about this idea? I look forward to your feedback.

With regards,

Ulrich