On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:49 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:
What content should be version controlled with the website?
The current python.org website is a mix of code and templates in github repo, content/data stored in a database and a (for various reasons) homegrown CMS to manage pages such as the ones you found.
There's work underway to replace the homegrown CMS with a standard more feature rich one, which will hopefully allow us to open up site editing to way more volunteers than we currently have.
So there are no topical guidelines?
wiki.python.org is a separate VM, which doesn't have anything to do with www.python.org. The VM runs a more or less standard moin installation, which uses its own version control system (you can access this via the "info" link on the pages).
https://github.com/dwf/moin2rst Formatter plugin
Simply put ``RenderAsRestructuredtext.py`` to MoinMoin's ``plugin/formatter`` directory.
Action plugin
Simply put ``RenderAsRestructuredtext.py`` to MoinMoin's ``plugin/action`` directory.
We need people who have experience in technical writing and a passion to maintain informational resources.
FWIW: A change of tools won't magically give us better content.
A boost in familiar usability could encourage effortless contributions.
The wiki does support ReST syntax if you don't like the wiki markup:
Ah, thanks!