[Pkg-javascript-devel] proposal: phase out Task pages on wiki.d.o in favor of gitlab repo wikis

[Pirate Praveen]

On വ്യാ, ഏപ്രി 26, 2018 at 3:03 വൈകു, Paolo 
Greppi <paolo.greppi at libpf.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with the switch from alioth to salsa there is a bunch of gitlab 
> features we
> can exploit - one is the built-in wiki associated with each repo.
> 
> I have been experimenting with those wikis, as in:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-liftoff/wikis/home
> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-micromatch/wikis/home
> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-yarnpkg/wikis/home
> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-execa/wikis/home
> 
> then I realized that this overlaps with the Task pages on wiki.d.o:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Tasks
> 
> My proposal is that we keep the wiki.d.o for general stuff (policies,
> procedures...) and move all package-specific stuff to salsa: if a 
> package is
> WIP, it should have a repo on salsa (this encourages the would-be 
> maintainer
> to share her work early with the team), so we may just use the gitlab 
> wiki.
> 
> It should be possible to tweak this script:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/js-task-wiki-edit.git
> to output the task page in the gitlab markdown dialect ...
> (BTW this repo should be migrated to salsa)
> 
> The js-task output could go to a separate wiki page:
> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-yarnpkg/wikis/task
> and the home:
> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-yarnpkg/wikis/home
> could be used as a notepad by the maintainer.
> 
> What are your thoughts ?

I think this is a good idea. As you already noted, it needs somoene to 
update the task generation script.
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